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Illegal street racing blocks intersection in ChicagoChicago IL

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W 63rd St & Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60638

A large group of about ten cars engaged in illegal street racing and blocked the intersection near 63rd St and Cicero Ave in Chicago. The vehicles dispersed at high speed in multiple directions after police arrived.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 06
02:55
Transcript:
00:00
At 13, I'm getting a bunch of calls of the drag racers setting up at near 63rd St and Cicero Ave.
00:04
If anybody else is in the area, near 63rd St and Cicero Ave getting more than 10 cars, they're saying, or blocking the intersection.
00:13
10.4.
00:18
825, we landed.
00:20
044 in March.
00:22
That's 103.
00:30
814
00:36
814 Yeah can you guys head over to near 63rd St and Cicero Ave with 13 for the drag racers?
00:41
On the way
00:46
831, we left it 9-08 other miles.
00:49
All right, 10-4[1].
00:51
Are anybody over there still at 5-6 in Oakley? I got two calls of shots fired, 5-5 in Rockwell and 5-5 in Tallman.
00:57
The Tallman one said they just heard 10 gunshots, three blocks east of Tallman.
01:04
863. I'm sitting right here.
01:06
I didn't hear anything.
01:10
Okay, John Ford.
01:15
So one, two.
01:20
712. Squad,
01:23
did we get any calls for a traffic crash on 65th in Ashland?
01:32
6.5 in Ashland, negative.
01:37
All right, squad, you can hold us down on this.
01:41
So car's pretty damaged, lights are out as well.
01:49
Is there anybody in the car?
01:52
We get a right on scene squad, but we're going to check it out.
01:55
Just calling it out.
02:00
All right, I'm going back to 7 o'clock.
02:02
I'll let you know if anything popped up.
02:08
63.
02:11
8.63.
02:13
I know he said he heard of three blocks east, but I'll make my way from western west just in case.
02:18
And then we'll keep it coded unless you hear all the voice.
02:22
Okay, turn four.
02:25
Okay.
02:28
Okay.
02:31
813.
02:32
813.
02:35
They're disbursing.
02:36
We don't know how to find us to throw at a high rate of speed.
02:41
So they're divorcing from all directions at the intersection.
02:46
All right, just for information, it looks like they're starting to clear up from near 63rd St and Cicero Ave.
02:50
About 10 of them are going south on Cicero Ave to high-rate a speed, but they are dispersing in all directions.
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).

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W 63rd St & Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60638
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