A driver struck and killed a 2-year-old boy riding a mini-scooter in Lincoln Square Thursday evening.
The boy was riding across Leavitt Street at Eastwood Avenue shortly before 6 p.m. when a woman driving a Mitsubishi struck him, Chicago police said.
The child was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital and pronounced dead that evening, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The driver, a 24-year-old woman, has not been issued citations, police said. The investigation remained open.
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