A man was fatally struck by a pickup truck early Monday causing hourslong lane closures and major delays on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near the Museum Campus.
Around 5:10 a.m., the man, 72, was standing in the median in the 1100 block of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive when a Dodge Ram pickup truck that had the green light was going north and hit the man, Chicago police said.
The unidentified man was dead at the scene, according to police.
The driver of the pickup truck, a 26-year-old man, stayed on the scene and declined medical attention, officials said.
All northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive are closed at Roosevelt as police investigated.
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