A man has dead and five people were hurt in a crash early Thursday near Midway Airport in Garfield Ridge on the Southwest Side.
The crash happened around 3:25 a.m. when a Ford Fusion going east in the 5600 block of West 55th Street made a U-turn and struck a Hyundai Palisade going west, Chicago police said.
The unidentified driver of a Fusion, a 28-year-old man, was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. A 31-year-old woman who was also in the Fusion was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where she was in critical condition.
The driver of the Palisade, a 29-year-old man, and a 17-year-old girl who was a passenger were also taken to Christ where they were in fair condition, officials said.
A 20-year-old woman in the Palisade was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where her condition wasn’t known, and another woman, 32, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition, authorities said.
The Major Accidents Investigations Unit was looking into the crash.
