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Chicago Police continue to investigate a pair of shootings that unfolded in the Loop Friday night, leaving a 14-year-old boy dead and eight other teens wounded in the latest “teen takeover” that marred the city’s start of the holiday season.

Scores of teens were among the crowd that gathered downtown for the city’s annual tree-lighting ceremony in Millennium Park Friday.

Many were still in the area hours later, making it the latest instance of an unsanctioned downtown gathering, advertised on social media, to end in a shooting.

Shortly before 10 p.m., CPD officers heard gunfire erupt on State Street outside the Chicago Theatre. Seven teens— all 13 to 17 years old — were wounded. Minutes later and a few blocks south, police officers found a 1

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