Falling debris from Wicker Park building critically injures woman, 22: Chicago police

Chicago police stated at about 6 p.m. within the 1200-block of North Milwaukee Avenue, on the intersection of North Ashland Avenue, a 22-year-old lady was struck by falling particles from a close-by industrial constructing.

Police stated she suffered a laceration to her head and was taken to Stroger Hospital in vital situation.

Video from the scene exhibits that items of the constructing’s facade and an indication had fallen to the sidewalk.

Police stated a automobile driving on Milwaukee was additionally struck by the falling particles. The motive force was not injured, based on CPD.

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Neighbors stated they seen a part of the constructing eroding days earlier than this incident. Constructing inspectors and investigators are actually tasked with trying into the construction of the industrial constructing.

“It was fairly scary to listen to that someone simply received injured by that,” stated Mike Serafin, a neighbor. “You recognize, they put up the scaffolding up over there, and also you thought that may have been sufficient to, like, shield bystanders.”

Serafin walks by the intersection recurrently and seen one thing off concerning the constructing up to now few days.

“Like 4 or 5 days in the past, the facade of the constructing began eroding from the north aspect,” he stated. “I seen that the signal, which was principally simply bolted solely into the facade itself, in order it was eroding it is a matter of time earlier than it is gonna come down.”

To this point investigators do not know what brought on the particles to fall or if the constructing had reported any points previous to Wednesday.

It was not instantly clear if there have been any issues reported with the constructing previous to Wednesday night time.