One dead after semi 10%

By Sun-Times Wire5%

7/10/2026, 4:31:02 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Quote-first Misdirection, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 61% saturation with 111 hits. Analysis detected 329 faulty-reasoning hits from 182 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.5% and a BS Rank of 10% (19,842 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.70% of the article peer group.

Illinois State Police | Sun-Times file photo 
Sun-Times file photo 
One person is dead after an early morning traffic collision involving a semi and another vehicle early Friday on the outbound Dan Ryan Expressway on the Near South Side. 
The wreck occurred at 12:09 a.m. in the southbound lanes at 26th Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and Illinois State Police. 
One person, an occupant of one of the vehicles, was pronounced deceased on scene, state police said. 
Lanes were reopened five hours later, about 5:20 a.m. after traffic was diverted to I-55 southbound. 
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182 words analyzed.

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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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