A suspected carjacker was in police custody this morning after leading Chicago and Illinois State police on an 11-mile chase, all while firing shots at pursuing officers.
No officers were wounded in the meandering pursuit that began on the city's Far South Side and ended in the lakefront Bronzeville neighborhood.
Police said the van first fled from officers in the 10000 block of South Normal Avenue at about 2 a.m., after Morgan Park District officers suspected that it was taken in an earlier carjacking.
From there, the van fled north on to Interstate 57 on to the Dan Ryan Expressway, spurring state police to join in the pursuit, police said. The van left the expressway on 76th Street, trying to evade authorities by racing through several South Side neighborhoods.
Several times during the pursuit, shots were fired at officers
The van eventually crashed in a rear parking lot outside of a highrise building near 30th Street and Vernon Avenue. The driver wasn't injured.
A male inside was taken into police custody and quickly hustled off to Calumet Area police headquarters for questioning
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