A high-speed police chase that started on Chicago’s West Side continued for several minutes, traveling to the South Side as an erratic vehicle went the wrong way down some of the city’s most-trafficked roads, leading to a crash and sparking a massive search for suspects.
The chase lasted nearly an hour before the vehicle plowed through gates and entered an industrial area near 71st and Pulaski, where three people exited and fled on foot, sparking a manhunt for suspects near 69th and Kedvale.
“We have a high-speed, extremely dangerous pursuit here on the South Side of Chicago that has been going on for the better part of a half hour,” Sky 5 reporter Mike Lorber said while covering the chase.
NBC Chicago’s Sky 5 helicopter followed the chase as the vehicle exceeded 100 mph at points, traveling on the Dan Ryan and Lake Shore Drive, at times going the wrong direction as a police helicopter also followed it…