UPDATE WITH ID
An off-duty Chicago Police officer was killed in a crash early Sunday in southwest suburban Forest View.
At 2:05 a.m., officer Charles Barango, 49, was stopped on a motorcycle at a red light at the Central Avenue exit off the southbound Stevenson Expressway. As the light turned green, he drove forward and his motorcycle was struck by a northbound car, which ran a red light, Forest View Police Chief Steve Good said. Barango was wearing a helmet.
Barango, of the 5700 block of West 63rd Street, was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood where he was pronounced dead, Good said.
The driver of the car was checked and treated at the scene but did not go to a hospital, Good said.
Charges against the driver were pending, according to Good.