CHICAGO — Nine teenagers were shot, one fatally, in a pair of shootings less than an hour apart Friday night in Chicago’s Loop, according to Chicago police.

Officers from the city’s Central (1st) district were on patrol around 9:50 p.m. at 164 N. State St., just outside the Chicago Theatre, when they heard gunshots and saw a large group running away, police said.

On Saturday morning, police reported that seven teenagers were wounded in the shooting, all of whom were in good or fair condition.

A few blocks south of the theater, a second shooting at 140 S. Dearborn St. around 10:40 p.m. left a 14-year-old boy dead and an 18-year-old man in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the leg. The dead teen’s identity wasn’t yet public on Saturday morning. A preliminary internal police notifi

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