Traffic accident on Randolph near Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL

Traffic

Reported: 11/13/2025 08:29 AM

E Randolph St, Chicago, IL

A traffic accident occurred on Randolph near Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Emergency services requested diversion of southbound Lake Shore Drive traffic to nearby roads such as Wacker Drive to manage congestion.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 04

02:43

Transcript:

00:00

113.1.11.1.11 needs which side blocked off northbound Columbus or eastbound from right off?

00:17

I think he said eastbound.

00:19

111.

00:21

News Park, Westbound traffic coming from Lake Shore Drive.

00:24

All right, 113 westbound traffic coming from Lake Shore.

00:30

On Randolph.

00:33

11 on Randolph, correct?

00:37

Yes.

00:44

One, two, four, info, 124.

00:48

124.

00:49

24. 24,

00:50

you're back in a district, you're open, sir.

00:54

Thank you. All right,

00:58

when you can get to near North Garvey court,

01:01

they were asking for an ambulance for a male that was down.

01:04

It looks like ambulance 41's been there for quite a while.

01:07

near North Garvey Court.

01:11

Lay-night.

01:18

113.111.13.

01:22

I think 111 was referring to the ramp,

01:26

a southbound ramp from Lake Shore Drive.

01:29

Maybe a car from the 8th and district can help us out over there.

01:38

Okay, so you need a car from 18 to go north of Wacker on Lake Shore and stop traffic there?

01:47

Yeah, there's the, on the phone lines, there's an exit that points to the 300 lower Randolph.

02:01

Okay, so you need 18 to divert traffic on to like Wacker or something, correct?

02:10

Let's see,

02:13

1831, can you help out, please?

02:16

HG1.

02:19

They got an accident, Randolph, off of Lakeshore.

02:23

I guess they need traffic diverted from the southbound lanes on Lake Shore in 18.

02:28

Maybe on to Wacker or somewhere else, I don't know.

02:35

Two-four.

02:38

The accident's on Randolph, but I guess people are coming off the Lake Shore ramp onto Randolph.

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