{"id":166069,"date":"2025-08-22T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166069\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:54:11","slug":"chicago-man-charged-in-deadly-near-north-side-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166069\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged in deadly Near North Side crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A 40-year-old man has been charged in connection with a deadly crash on the Near North Side, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Jon Walker faces one felony count of aggravated DUI\/accident\/death and one felony count of reckless homicide.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jon-walker-40-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Pictured is Jon Walker, 40.\u00a0 <strong data-v-0dea8073=\"\"> (Chicago PD\u00a0)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The charges stem from an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/near-north-side-fatal-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> April 19 crash in the 700 block of East 111th Street.<\/a> Police said a Chevy SUV traveling eastbound lost control and struck a building. Walker and another 40-year-old man were inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The other man died at the scene. Walker was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition before being taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Walker was taken into custody and charged accordingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Walker will appear in court for a detention hearing on Aug. 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was provided by the Chicago Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/near-north-side\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Near North Side<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A 40-year-old man has been charged in connection with a deadly crash on the Near North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,65347,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-166069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-near-north-side","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115071580147230606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}