2 Killed, 2 Injured When Car Plunges Off Chicago Expressway

2 Killed, 2 Injured When Car Plunges Off Chicago Expressway
Interstate 55 in Chicago, Ill., in a file photo. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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CHICAGO—Two people were killed and two more were seriously injured early Friday when their vehicle hit a concrete wall along a Chicago expressway and plunged off the highway onto a street 50 feet below, police said.

The vehicle was traveling northbound on Interstate 55—also known as the Stevenson Expressway—at around 4 a.m. when it struck a concrete wall and tumbled off the edge, striking a light pole before landing on the street in the McKinley Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, Illinois State Police Trooper Omoayena Williams said.