Man wounded in shooting on Dan Ryan

A man was shot while driving on the Dan Ryan late Thursday. It was the third shooting on a Chicago expressway in less than a week. | NVP News

(CHICAGO) A man was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side late Thursday.

The man, whose exact age was not immediately known, was shot about 11:50 p.m. while in a vehicle in the northbound lanes of the expressway between 87th and 95th streets, according to Illinois State Police.

His hospital information was not available early Friday, police said.

Three lanes of the expressway between 87th and 95th streets were closed early Friday as police investigated.

The Dan Ryan shooting was the third on a Chicago expressway since early Sunday and the twentieth since the start of 2016.