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Man shot to death in Avondale is 2018's first reported homicide in Chicago

A man was found shot to death in a crashed car early Monday in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side, marking the first reported homicide in Chicago in 2018.

About 2:20 a.m., 51-year-old Janusz C. Kolodziejczyk was driving a Toyota Camry south on Pulaski when it crashed into a fence in the 3900 block of West Cornelia, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

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