Three people were taken into custody after shots were fired at Chicago police officers Monday night on the West Side.
No one was wounded by the gunfire, police said.
The officers were in the 1300 block of South Troy Street in the Lawndale neighborhood around 8:05 p.m., police said.
“Shots fired at the police! Shots fired at the police,” an officer yelled into his radio.
“My partner is on foot, he’s going down the alley,” the officer told the dispatcher. “Offenders are running westbound.”
The suspects got into a vehicle and fled, leading police and a department helicopter on a brief chase onto the Eisenhower Expressway, then I-55 before they were stopped on Pulaski Road off the interstate, according to police.
“Great police work,” tweeted police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who said guns were recovered.
There was no word on charges as of early Tuesday.
The incident comes after a weekend when there were two police-involved shootings 24 hours apart on the South Side.
In one of those shootings, a Chicago police officer was shot in the hand and another man was critically wounded by police, according to officials.
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