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As many as five people were shot just outside the Chicago Theater in the Loop late Friday night, according to Chicago police.

According to a preliminary internal police notification, the shooting took place at around 9:50 p.m at 164 N. State Street. Those struck were being taken to multiple hospitals, per the notification. The victims’ conditions weren’t immediately available.

At least six evidence markers were sitting on State Street by the theater’s marquee around 11:40 p.m as Central (1st) District police kept the area blocked off.

Police were still trying to determine a final number of shooting victims as of midnight Saturday. It was the first shooting with that number of victims in the center of the city in a number of months.

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