CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker called for transparency after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man in northwest suburban Franklin Park after the agency reported the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle.

The man who was killed was identified by the Department of Homeland Security as Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, 38. DHS said in a written statement that Villegas-Gonzalez is a citizen of Mexico and was in the U.S. illegally, though further details were not provided.

Pritzker on Friday afternoon said in a social media post he was “aware of the troubling incident that has unfolded in Franklin Park,” without providing further details.

“This is a developing situation and the people of Illinois deserve a full, factual accounting of what’s happened today to

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