Expressway shootings on rise in Chicago area. License plate cameras being installed to help, but ‘more … needs to happen,’ advocate cautions – By Madeline Buckley, Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas and Zach Harris (Chicago Tribune) / Aug 27 2021
Denise Huguelet and Tamara Clayton never met. But their lives, dedicated to the service of others, were as similar as their premature, unnecessary deaths: Both women were slain while traveling on Chicago-area interstates.
Huguelet, 67, a retired special education teacher and mother of five, was fatally shot as she traveled from a White Sox game to her Orland Park home on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Aug. 17.
Clayton, 55, who had a daughter who is to be married this Labor Day weekend, was shot and killed in 2019 as she drove on Interstate 57 near Cicero Avenue to her job with the U.S. Postal Service, said her sister, Alma Hill. She intentionally avoided the Dan Ryan because she was afraid of being shot.
And the week after Huguelet’s killing, a man was fatally shot on the Eisenhower Expressway and a passenger in his vehicle also died when it crashed. There was a third nonfatal shooting Monday that left two men wounded
