Multiple people shot on State Street outside Chicago Theatre: Police

As many as five people were shot just outside the Chicago Theatre 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.

Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, posted to social media around 10:50 p.m. that there were “at least” five people wounded and that 300 youths were “rioting” downtown, but didn’t give a specific location. Hopkins also said that at least one police officer had been hospitalized and others had been injured while responding to the scene.

Crowds had been in the downtown area earlier Friday evening for the annual tree lighting ceremony.

A police investigator picks up evidence to place in bags at the scene of a multiple shooting outside the Chicago Theatre in the 100 block of North State Street on Nov. 22, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
A police investigator walks through the scene of a multiple shooting outside the Chicago Theatre in the 100 block of North State Street on Nov. 22, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Police officers guard the scene of a multiple shooting outside the Chicago Theatre in the 100 block of North State Street on Nov. 22, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

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.

Earlier this year, 14 people were wounded and 4 were killed in a drive-by rifle shooting that the drill rapper Mello Buckzz’s album release party in the River North neighborhood. Authorities are still investigating that shooting, which was among the city’s worst in recent years even as violent crimes have dropped sharply.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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