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Medical examiner identifies Highland Park High School graduate from Highwood who died in fall from interstate ramp in Chicago

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Source: Lake and McHenry County Scanner

The medical examiner has released the identity of a 20-year-old Highland Park High School graduate from Highwood who died after falling from an elevated Interstate 94 exit ramp onto the street below in Chicago. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim on Wednesday as Bryan Julio Vicario Arellanes, 20, of Highwood. Illinois State Police (ISP) Troop 3 responded around 11:48 a.m. on November 1 to the 2200 block of South Lumber Street in Chicago for a report of an unresponsive person, an ISP spokesperson said. Chicago Fire Department paramedics were sent to the area of Lumber Street and Union Avenue around 11:38 a.m. Chicago police officers who were searching for someone who had fallen from the expressway above found a man lying on the ground below and called for an ambulance, police radio traffic indicated.

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