{"id":778408,"date":"2026-05-07T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778408\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:14:14","slug":"severe-traffic-expected-amid-services-for-cpd-officer-bartholomew-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778408\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Severe\u2019 traffic expected amid services for CPD officer Bartholomew \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: The video in the above player is from a previous report. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago officials are warning &#8220;severe traffic congestion and delays&#8221; are expected throughout Thursday and Friday during services for Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-hospital-shooting-latest-details-police-officer-killed-critical-condition-suspect\/3928305\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed in the line of duty<\/a> in late May when a gunman opened fire at Swedish Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A visitation for Bartholomew will be held from 2-8 p.m. on Thursday at St. Andrew&#8217;s Greek Orthodox Church on North Sheridan Road and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/funeral-arrangements-set-for-chicago-officer-killed-in-swedish-hospital-shooting\/3930257\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">funeral services begin<\/a> at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Andrew&#8217;s Greek Orthodox Church on North Sheridan Road.<\/p>\n<p>Several streets are expected to be impacted by the services, including DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Sheridan Road and Bryn Mawr Avenue, according to Chicago&#8217;s Office of Emergency Management and Communications. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additional streets may also be impacted. Expect severe traffic congestion and delays. Alternate routes are suggested and motorists should allow for extra travel time,&#8221; OEMC said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The impacts are expected starting at 11 a.m. on Thursday and will continue until 9 p.m., OEMC said. They will start back up around 9 a.m. on Friday and continue until roughly 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Bartholomew, 38, was killed while transporting a person to Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital near Chicago&#8217;s Ravenswood neighborhood, at 5140 N. California Ave., for observation, according to Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the suspect smuggled a gun into the hospital and fired shots at both Bartholomew and another officer before running out of the facility, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/shooting-at-chicago-hospital-leaves-2-police-officers-injured\/3927808\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prompting a lockdown at the hospital and a manhunt in the surrounding area.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bartholomew, a father of three from Evanston and a 10-year veteran of CPD, was shot in the head and later pronounced dead. The other officer, 57 years old and a 21-year CPD veteran, remains in critical condition, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Note: The video in the above player is from a previous report. Chicago officials are warning &#8220;severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":778409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,7122,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-778408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-police-department","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116530411548557352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778408","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=778408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}