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A woman was critically wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the North Side.
About 2:45 p.m., someone shot the 24-year-old while she was in a backyard of a home in the 2400 block of West Eastwood Avenue, Chicago police said.
She suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Swedish Hospital in critical condition, police said.
Area Three detectives are investigating.