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Elderly Woman Dead After Hit-And-Run Accident

By Anthonia Akitunde in News on Jan 9, 2010 8:00PM

An 82-year-old woman was killed on the West Side after a hit-and-run driver struck her Friday evening, Chicago Breaking News reports. The victim, Vivian Parker, was hit just outside her home at around 6 p.m. and was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 6:25 p.m., the report said. Neither a description of the vehicle nor the name of a suspect was available as of Friday.