One of the stranger videos to go viral in Chicago this week featured one of the slowest police pursuits of all time. The footage showed the driver of a hoopty minivan creeping along a four-lane street, weaving in and out of construction cones and driving the wrong way — all at about 2 mph — while a swarm of Chicago police patrol cars zigged and zagged in an attempt to contain him.
After seeing the footage, we had to find out what that was all about. And we did:
Early Wednesday morning, the streets of Humboldt Park turned into a scene straight out of a (very) low-budget action flick, complete with a minivan, a crack pipe, and a driver determined to take the scenic route—on the sidewalk…