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Mount Prospect man killed in Chicago crash

A 56-year-old Mount Prospect man was killed late Saturday when the car he was driving went off an interstate ramp on the South Side of Chicago and rolled over, Illinois State Police said Sunday.

According to state police, the man was driving a 2000 Toyota Avalon on to the northbound I-55 ramp south of Princeton Avenue at 11:29 p.m. when, for unknown reasons, the car veered off the roadway to the right.

The car struck some trees along a grassy median before rolling along the embankment and coming to rest on the slip ramp from I-94 southbound to I-55 northbound.

The driver's name is being withheld pending notification of family, state police said. An autopsy is pending.

A 16-year-old Oak Lawn girl riding in the car was hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries, police added.

The ramp from southbound I-94 to northbound I-55 was closed for more than two hours after the crash while police investigated. It reopened shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, state police said.

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