Earlier this year, a jury awarded nearly $5 million in damages — taxpayer dollars from hardworking Chicagoans — to the estate of an 84-year-old woman who was killed and whose family members were injured when a Chicago police van ran a red light at a high rate of speed and set off a chain-reaction accident.
The investigation after the accident, in 2019, revealed the police van was racing in response to a call about someone with a gun. Tragically, the person who was the subject of the call had been taken into custody before the accident occurred.
