CHICAGO — A Chicago Hearth Division paramedic treating a affected person inside a hospital emergency room narrowly escaped critical damage when a bullet shattered a window and struck his hat, police stated.
In accordance with police, an individual in an older mannequin inexperienced Buick pulled as much as Stroger Hospital on Chicago’s close to West Aspect and opened hearth at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday earlier than rushing off.
The bullet struck the invoice of the paramedic’s baseball-style hat and the paramedic was not injured.
No arrests have been made as of Sunday morning, police stated.
The incident occurred about 24 hours after a Chicago police officer was shot within the leg on town’s South Aspect. The 30-year-old officer who was shot whereas she and her associate received out of their squad automotive to render assist to a person who was mendacity on the street, was handled at an space hospital and launched on Saturday.
No arrests have been made within the capturing of the officer, who police stated was the twelfth member of the division to be shot this 12 months and the forty sixth to be shot at or shot.
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Photographs: How you can change an 8 million pound railroad bridge truss on the Mississippi River
Retailers Bridge will get a raise

Folks watch from a particular riverboat cruise as employees elevate a brand new bridge truss (proper) into place on the Retailers Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. That is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million mission. Every truss part weighs over 8 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction mission will widen the bridge permitting for 2 units of tracks and double the practice site visitors every day. Photograph by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Retailers Bridge will get a raise

Crews elevate a brand new bridge truss, proper, into place on the Retailers Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. That is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million mission. Every truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction mission will widen the bridge permitting for double the practice site visitors every day. Photograph by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Retailers Bridge will get a raise

Crews elevate a brand new bridge truss into place on the Retailers Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. That is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million mission. Every truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction mission will widen the bridge permitting for double the practice site visitors every day. Photograph by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Retailers Bridge will get a raise

Crews elevate a brand new bridge truss into place on the Retailers Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. That is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million mission. Every truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction mission will widen the bridge permitting for double the practice site visitors every day. Photograph by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Retailers Bridge will get a raise

Bob Wagoner, left, Jane Louer, middle, and Ron Goldfeder watch from a Riverboat as crews elevate a brand new bridge truss into place on the Retailers Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. That is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million mission. Every truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction mission will widen the bridge permitting for double the practice site visitors every day. Photograph by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Retailers Bridge will get a raise

The McKinley Bridge is seen within the foreground as crews elevate a brand new bridge truss into place on the Retailers Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. That is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million mission. Every truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction mission will widen the bridge permitting for double the practice site visitors every day. Photograph by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com