The shooting happened at about 2:31 a.m. near Hudson and Evergreen avenues in Old Town, Chicago police said.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot when they found a 44-year-olf man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
No one is in custody.
CPD Area Three detectives are investigating.
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