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Car Hits Police ATV; Officer Injured

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Chicago Police officer is recovering Monday morning, after a car hit his all-terrain vehicle on Belmont Avenue in the Lakeview neighborhood.

The accident happened just after 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the 800 block of West Belmont Avenue, police said.

The area was busy with revelers following the Gay Pride Parade, which stepped off earlier in the day at Belmont Avenue and Halsted Street just to the east.

The officer was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with minor injuries.

As of Monday morning, it had not been learned whether any tickets had been issued.

The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.

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