1-Year-Old Girl Dies After Car Hit Concrete Wall On Dan Ryan

CHICAGO — A 1-year-old girl from Homewood involved in a crash involving two cars on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago early Monday morning has died. Illinois State Police said the young girl had been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after the crash around 12:10 a.m. June 6 near Interstate 94's 59th Street exit.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office on Tuesday morning confirmed the death of Lazel Bond. The young girl was pronounced dead at 6:08 a.m. Monday at Comer Children's Hospital.

Bond was a passenger in a 2013 gray Audi that was northbound on I-94 and "made contact" with a 2008 blue Mazda that was also northbound in the local lanes, State Police said in a crash report.

When the two cars collided, police said the Audi "continued to veer to the right, up the embankment" and struck a concrete wall.

Three other occupants of the Audi were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries: the 26-year-old man who was driving, a 24-year-old Chicago woman and 23-year-old South Holland woman.

None of the four occupants of the Mazda were injured, police said.

An investigation into the crash forced the closure of all northbound lanes in the area for nearly four hours.