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Funeral procession with horse-drawn hearse slows traffic in ChicagoChicago IL

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W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60654

According to the dispatch call, a large funeral procession including a slow horse-drawn hearse will travel down Halsted Street near Hubbard Street in Chicago around noon, involving over 100 vehicles and affecting multiple police districts.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 09
Listen to dispatch call
01:2
Transcript:
00:00
500 ida 500 ida
00:05
All right, Clyde, from this funeral, as you could do me a favor.
00:10
They're not supposed to leave here until about maybe at 12 o'clock,
00:14
but it's going to be a funeral procession of over 100 cars,
00:18
and they have one of the wooden wheeled hearses.
00:22
They can only go up to 20 miles an hour, and they're going to take Halsted all the way down
00:27
until near Hubbard Street in the 18th District.
00:33
Wow, Halsted all the way down to near Hubbard Street, and they got one of those carts.
00:39
All right, and at least 100 cars.
00:42
Let me notify a supervisor here,
00:44
and they will make sure we'll notify Zone 4-2 and whoever else needs to be notified.
00:52
Sounds like it can be going through a lot of districts.
00:57
Sounds good, yes.
00:58
Well, we'll keep you posted on when they're actually leaving here, but it's not going to be until about noon.

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W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60654

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Incident Timeline

  1. Confirmation of DJ Commander as Decedent
  2. Route and Traffic Advisory
  3. Procession Planning and Notifications
  4. Funeral Gathering at 12459 South Halsted

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