After leading police on a nearly two-hour chase Monday, a man who allegedly stole an ambulance from a Chicago fire station and drove it on a journey of more than 70 miles is in custody.
According to Chicago police, the vehicle was stolen from the front of a fire station in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood, just off of West Cermak.before being taken into custody in a dramatic foot pursuit that lasted nearly two hours and shut down both sides of Interstate 55 in Livingston County.
Security footage from a nearby business shows the ambulance parked outside of the building, and in the very next frame the ambulance is gone, off on a ride that would take it more than 75 miles and into Livingston County.
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