{"id":712402,"date":"2026-04-08T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/712402\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:00:16","slug":"stevenson-expressway-crash-today-2-seriously-hurt-in-i-55-crash-car-fire-near-damen-avenue-impacting-chicago-traffic-cfd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/712402\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenson Expressway crash today: 2 seriously hurt in I-55 crash, car fire near Damen Avenue, impacting Chicago traffic, CFD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, April 8, 2026 12:49AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"2 seriously injured in fiery I-55 crash on SW Side: CFD\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Two people were seriously injured in a fiery crash on the Stevenson Expressway on Chicago&#8217;s Southwest Side on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened in the outbound lanes of Interstate 55 near Damen Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A Chicago Fire Department spokesperson said the two people injured are in serious to critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Authorities did not immediately provide further information about the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Wednesday, April 8, 2026 12:49AM CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Two people were seriously injured in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":712403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[296503,8046,154977,960,5463,11222,5462,8755,296502,296501,296500,5386,1818,221336],"class_list":["post-712402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-296503","tag-car-crash","tag-car-crash-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-breaking-news","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-news","tag-chicago-traffic","tag-i-55-crash","tag-i55-crash","tag-i55-traffic","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-stevenson-expressway"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116366857307124134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712402","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=712402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}