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Drag racing group creates smoke cloud in Chicago 

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W 47th St & S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
A large group of cars gathered at an intersection for drag racing. Some individuals in the group sprayed a fire extinguisher, causing a cloud of smoke that made it hard to see. One car, a silver Infiniti without license plates, drove recklessly and on the wrong side of the road while spraying the extinguisher.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 13
02:31

Transcript:
921. 2-1. I'm about to send your message. Telfare. We're getting a couple calls now for approaching an ashen, about 30 cars starting to drag race to the intersection. 24. We can't take that. Can you log out 24 afternoon? We'll head over there. or he put in my box too. 10-4[1]. 24, you can try now. 9-6-4-4-boy. We're heading over there. 10-4-4-4-boy. Yeah, they just busted us with some fire extinguisher over here at the intersection. Some of them are breaking up. There might have been a silver Infiniti. Negatives, we're covered in the cloud right now. We got the windows rolled up by it starting to sneak in into the vents so we can't see anything. Alright, 10-4 and 64 boys said a silver infinity, possibly a silver infinity. Just extinguished the fire extinguished. We wrote them. 9-6-4, so that's a good amount of cars, they're mostly breaking up. westbound. Time for going westbound. Back infinity, no plates, G-37. It's heading westbound right now. Pershing, it's still dusting fire extinguisher, out of the window. Yeah, it's still rolling west now and it's just past Damon. We'll take a mic to drive in left the center. I're still going west on past Damon. Southbound west or on the wrong side of the road. Southbound on on western side of the road.

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10-4: Acknowledgement/Message Received

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W 47th St & S Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60609

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