A 4-year-old girl was shot and seriously hurt on the Northwest Side in one of three shootings across the city that left eight people injured overnight, authorities said.
The first shooting happened shortly about 10:25 p.m., as the girl, Shyla Rivera, and four others sat inside a silver Nissan Altima in the Portage Park neighborhood, according to police.
One of the people inside the vehicle told police that they had been stopped at the intersection of Central Avenue and Irving Park Road and that they had noticed another vehicle, a beige or gray Infiniti G35, in the left turn lane at that intersection.
That vehicle moved over and proceeded north on Central ahead of the Altima, according to preliminary police reports. But as the Altima approached Cullom Avenue, about three blocks north...