Rauner unhurt following crash in Chicago

Posted on January 22, 2015

Gov. Bruce Rauner was in a motorcade which was involved in a crash in downtown Chicago on Wednesday. (Photo courtesy Bruce Rauner)

By Jim Anderson/Illinois Radio Network

CHICAGO – Gov. Bruce Rauner was involved in a car crash on Wednesday.

It happened in downtown Chicago. The governor was in a motorcade in his vehicle with his state police security detail, stopped at a red light, when a crash involving two other vehicles happened directly in front of them, according to state police.

One of those cars spun and struck the governor’s car. Neither the governor nor anybody else in his entourage was injured, but the governor’s car did sustain damage.

Three other people were taken to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Chicago police are investigating the crash.

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