Around 8:40 p.m., the boy was walking with his father, another man and another child in the 1000-block of East 93rd Street in the city's Burnside neighborhood when someone in a red sedan fired shots at the group, according to Chicago police.
The boy suffered a gunshot wound to the leg was taken by his father to Comers Children's Hospital in good condition, police said.
No one is in custody and Area Two detectives are investigating.