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Woman Wounded In Kennedy Expressway Shooting

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A woman was shot early Sunday while traveling on the Kennedy Expressway on the North Side.

The woman was shot once in the leg about 5:15 a.m. in the outbound lanes of I-90/94 near Fullerton when someone in a black BMW sedan began to fire into the passenger side of her vehicle, according to Illinois State Police.

She was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, police said. Additional details, including her age, were not available.

All outbound lanes of the expressway were closed to traffic at Armitage for about three hours after the shooting, police said.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2017. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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