Overview
- Police say a black SUV drove the wrong way in the northbound lanes of DuSable Lake Shore Drive and struck a white sedan head-on in the 4000 block near Oakwood Boulevard late Sunday night at about 11:20 p.m., triggering a chain-reaction crash.
- The driver of the white sedan was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition and later died, with the Cook County Medical Examiner identifying her as 35-year-old Yoketha L. Brown of Chicago.
- Officers took the SUV driver into custody at the scene and the Chicago Police Department’s Major Accidents Investigation Unit is handling the active investigation, though police have not announced any charges.
- The crash closed lanes and led to CTA bus reroutes that caused major delays during the Monday morning commute, with lanes reported blocked into the early morning hours the next day.
- DuSable Lake Shore Drive is a high-speed city thoroughfare where wrong-way collisions often have severe consequences, and the next steps will likely include the CPD investigation report and a prosecutor review to decide on charges.