Illinois State Police on Monday announced charges against 20 individuals, including 10 related to expressway shootings that have skyrocketed across the Chicago area in recent years.
“All of these acts show a complete contempt for human life,” ISP Director Brendan Kelly said during a news conference announcing the charges.
The 10 arrests are a small figure relative to the staggering menace of expressway shootings that’s exploded across the Chicago area – including another shooting that shut down the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan at Canalport late Monday morning shortly after ISP's news conference. Police have long said witnesses are few and far between in these incidents and that the crime scenes involve hundreds of feet of roadway, making these cases more complicated and difficult to solve.
But officials noted that there are 99 new license plate readers on the Dan Ryan – the expressway that sees far and away the most shootings – with 200 more to be installed across the Chicago area in the next year.
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