2 struck by vehicle near Lollapalooza, seriously injured
Two men were seriously injured tonight when they were struck by a vehicle on Lake Shore Drive, just east of Buckingham Fountain and the Lollapalooza music festival.
Chicago Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene on Lake Shore Drive east of Buckingham Fountain about 8:45 p.m., said fire spokesman Quention Curtis.
Two men, believed to be in their 20s, were taken in serious-to-critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, he said.
Police said a single vehicle hit the two, and it was not a hit and run. No other information was available at this time.
ID released for bicyclist who died after falling under truck leaving the Lollapalooza music festivalA 25-year-old woman riding a bicycle was run over by a truck Friday night in downtown Chicago after losing her balance and falling underneath the truck, police said.
The dump truck was stopped at a stoplight at 227 N. Wabash Ave. about 10:45 p.m., according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli
Killed was Jacqueline Marie Michon, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. She was a Chicago resident, authoritities said.
Michon grew up in Michigan, then after college lived and worked in Los Angeles as a personal trainer with a motion-picture company, according to a biography on the website of a small fitness company she worked with. She moved to Chicago last year, according to the biography.
Wabash intersects with Wacker Place at that intersection; a little north is the intersection of Wabash and Wacker Drive. The truck was headed north, Mirabelli said.
The woman rode her bicycle between the truck and a 4-door sedan that was stopped next to it, then apparently lost her balance and fell, landing under the rear of the truck, Mirabelli said. Before the woman could get out from under the vehicle, the light turned green, the driver moved forward and the woman was crushed.
A citizen flagged down the truck driver, who stopped and was there when police arrived, Mirabelli said.
Video from the scene showed the truck stopped just north of Wacker Place, and the victim and her bicycle came to rest just south of Wacker Place.
Michon was pronounced dead at 2:25 a.m. at the Cook County medical examiner's Stein Institute, according to the medical examiner's office.
The Chicago police Major Accident Investigation Unit is investigating, Mirabelli said.
