{"id":801031,"date":"2026-05-16T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801031\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:25:10","slug":"chicago-police-chase-today-driver-of-stolen-cook-county-sheriffs-car-detained-on-dan-ryan-expressway-at-79th-street-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801031\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago police chase today: Driver of stolen Cook County sheriff&#8217;s car detained on Dan Ryan Expressway at 79th Street, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A suspect is in custody after allegedly stealing a Cook County sheriff&#8217;s vehicle in Chicago and leading police on a chase on Saturday morning, Illinois State Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ISP said a suspect stole the squad car somewhere in the city, and its troopers and Chicago police officers chased the driver onto the Dan Ryan Expressway.<\/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 \">ISP deployed spike strips to stop the vehicle on the expressway near 79th Street in the Chatham neighborhood before 8:30 a.m. Officials took the driver into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Around the same time, a Cook County sheriff&#8217;s officer was injured in an incident involving a vehicle at West 31st Street and South California, according to the Chicago Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officer was transported to Saint Anthony Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. ABC7 cameras captured video of a damaged vehicle at that scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities did not immediately provide further information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This is a developing story. 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All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A suspect is in custody after allegedly stealing a Cook County sheriff&#8217;s vehicle in Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[326306,960,5463,5461,5462,5464,176342,179473,39332,5386,1818,34223,72817,326305,326304],"class_list":{"0":"post-801031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-326306","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-breaking-news","11":"tag-chicago-crime","12":"tag-chicago-news","13":"tag-chicago-police","14":"tag-chicago-police-chase","15":"tag-cook-county-sheriffs-office","16":"tag-dan-ryan-expressway","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-illinois","19":"tag-illinois-state-police","20":"tag-police-chase","21":"tag-squad-car-stolen","22":"tag-stolen-squad-car"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116585426170343291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031","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=801031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}