Chicago car crash: Person killed, 2 critically injured in crash involving wrong-way driver on I-94 near 55th Street, officials say

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A person was killed and two other people were critically injured in a car crash involving a wrong-way driver Friday on I-94 on the city's South Side, officials said. Chopper 7 was over the scene just after 7 p.m., where multiple vehicles appeared to be involved in a serious and damaging crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 55th Street. Chicago fire officials told ABC7 one person was removed from a vehicle and was dead at the scene. Two people were taken to a hospital in critical condition, CFD said. Illinois State Police said a wrong-way drive entered the northbound lanes of I-94 at 31st Street and traveled southbound before a five-vehicle fatal crash happened near 55th Street.

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