Jamarcus Ellis, a Westinghouse high school basketball legend, died early Friday when his vehicle ran into the pillar of a viaduct on the Near West Side near the Pilsen neighborhood.
Ellis, 38, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with trauma to his body and pronounced dead there, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lost control and crashed just after 2 a.m. in the 1700 block of South Western Avenue.
