The shooting happened as crowds were packing downtown for the annual Magnificent Mile Lights Festival and Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza.
CHICAGO -- A woman was seriously wounded in a shooting Saturday night in the Loop outside the Macy's department store on State Street, as large crowds were packing downtown for holiday festivities.According to unconfirmed police dispatch reports, the victim was shot outside the store, but ran inside Macy's after a report of shots fired near State and Washington streets.
The shooting happened as large holiday crowds were gathered downtown for the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival and Parade on Michigan Avenue, as well as the first weekend of the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza, just one night after the lighting of the city's official Christmas tree in Millennium Park.Several people who heard the gunfire a block away at Christkindlmarket ducked behind concrete barricades at Daley Plaza to take cover.
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