![A worker walks toward the wreckage of a truck being removed Tuesday, July 16, 2024, as workers clean up debris of a semi-trailer rollover on Interstate 80 near Kedzie Avenue in Hazel Crest. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) A worker walks toward the wreckage of a truck being removed Tuesday, July 16, 2024, as workers clean up debris of a semi-trailer rollover on Interstate 80 near Kedzie Avenue in Hazel Crest. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CTC-L-fatal-truck-accident08_200150158.jpg?w=466)
A semi-trailer rollover on Interstate 80 near Kedzie Avenue in Hazel Crest killed one person Tuesday morning, according to Illinois State Police.
At about 4:30 a.m., the tractor-trailer being driven east went down an embankment off the roadway and overturned onto Kedzie Avenue, police said in a statement Tuesday morning. State police responded and pronounced the driver dead.
Police said one eastbound lane on I-80 is shut down and Kedzie Avenue remained closed Tuesday morning.
Police are investigating and no additional information was immediately available.
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