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CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer was hospitalized after being sideswiped by a driver fleeing a traffic stop Friday morning in the Morgan Park neighborhood.
Officers were initiating a traffic stop on a driver in a black SUV around 1:14 a.m. when the driver sideswiped an officer as he was getting out of the squad car in the 10800 block of South Vincennes Avenue.
The officer was taken to a locate hospital where he was listed in good condition, police said.
The driver of the SUV fled the scene and there is no one in custody.