CHICAGO (June 17, 2025) – The family of a 10-year-old girl who was killed after a 2020 police chase received a $62.5 million settlement from the city of Chicago.
A Cook County jury ordered the city to pay $79.85 million in December to the family of Da’Karia Spicer, who was killed in the crash that occurred on Sept. 2, 2020, near 80th and Halsted streets. City lawyers appealed that verdict, one of the largest in Chicago history, and reached an agreement to resolve the lawsuit by paying a total of $62.5 million.
“This will leave a legacy for Da’Karia with her family and honor her memory,” said Patrick Salvi II, Managing Partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard told WTTW Chicago. “She was just a superstar. The magnitude of the loss is just incalculable.”
