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An Evergreen Park motorist was charged today after a hit-and-run crash that left a 24-year-old woman critically injured near Grant Park this week.
Carl J. Miller, 54, of the 8700 block of South Mozart Street, was charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, striking a pedestrian in the roadway, operating a vehicle without insurance and failure to report an accident, according to a statement from police News Affairs.

The woman was walking in the 500 block of South Lake Shore Drive around 8 a.m. Wednesday when she was hit by a maroon car, according to Officer John Mirabelli, a police spokesman.

A Secret Service agent stopped the car Miller was driving at 200 E. Jackson Blvd., notified Chicago police and waited for officers to arrive, according to a spokesman for the agency. The agent is assigned to the uniformed division of the Secret Service, but it was not known whether he was in uniform.

The victim was in critical condition as of Thursday afternoon, according to Officer Veejay Zala, a police spokesman.

The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to Fire Department spokesman Will Knight.

The car sustained “severe” windshield damage, according to Central District Police Lt. Richard Guerrero.