CHICAGO (WLS) -- One person is dead and another is seriously hurt after being struck in a hit-and-run Thursday on the city's South Side.
Chicago police said a man was pushing a 56-year-old in a wheelchair across the street in the 9400-block of S. Ashland Avenue around 6:20 p.m. when a driver in a 2007 Chevrolet SUV that was traveling northbound hit both of them.
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That driver did not stop.
The man in the wheelchair was taken to Christ Hospital with serious injuries. The man pushing him was killed and pronounced dead at the scene.
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Police are still looking for the driver and the Major Accidents unit is investigating.