An off-duty Chicago cop struck and killed a woman early Thursday after becoming distracted because of her phone and veering onto a sidewalk near the House of Blues in River North, according to a police report and sources.
The 40-year-old officer was driving an Infiniti SUV in the 300 block of North State Street about 12:30 a.m. Thursday. She told officers that she had dropped her phone and had taken her eyes off the road to grab it, the report said.
