The officers tried to stop him, but the man stuck a gun out the window and fired shots at the squad car, according to a statement from the Chicago Police Department. One bullet struck the squad car and grazed an officer in the face, it said.



Officers in another car returned fire, and the suspect fired several times at the second police car, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.



The suspect was not hit but crashed the car in the 10000 block of South Eggleston Avenue, police said. He tried to run away, but officers took him into custody a short time later. A 9mm handgun was recovered at the scene, police said.



The wounded officer, in his early 30s, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His wound was not considered life-threatening, Johnson said. No one else was injured.



"The officer is expected to be OK," said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. "We're just so incredibly happy (it wasn't worse). ... It just came really close."



Johnson, who stood in a baseball cap and plain clothes outside Advocate Christ late Tuesday, said the shooting was a grim reminder of what his officers face.



"It just goes to show you again how people are out here with all these weapons, and they're not afraid to use them," Johnson said. "The same individuals, repeat gun offenders, continuously create havoc in our neighborhoods, and we just have to send them a message that we're sick of it and we should be."



The suspect is 24 and was released on parole by the Illinois Department of Corrections on April 21, 2015, state records show. He had served a little more than three years in prison on one count of attempted armed robbery without a gun and one count of armed robbery without a gun.



The car he was driving matched one that had been reported stolen minutes earlier around 103rd Street and Lowe Avenue, about 2 1/2 miles east of the shooting, police said.



Vivian Reid, 80, said she and her son heard several shots while they stood outside their home on East 100th Place. "It was bam-bam-bam, and then police came out of everywhere," she said.



Reid, who has lived in the 600 block since 1967, said violence has been getting worse in her neighborhood. "It's getting bad over here," she said, standing on her porch with her hands on her hips.



A week ago, Reid said she was in her backyard when she heard the gunfire that killed Demarco Kennedy, 32, four blocks to the south. Kennedy was shot in the neck as he sat at a table in his second-floor apartment in the 600 block of East 102nd Place around 8:10 p.m. Aug. 9.



Reid said the recent shootings scare her, but she is not planning on moving out. "I don't bother nobody, and I'm close to God."



She smiled.