A woman was shot and critically wounded in the South Shore neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Around 4 p.m., the woman was shot at 6826 S. Cornell Ave., just south of Jackson Park. She was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

The woman, 43, was shot by a 17-year-old boy about 4 p.m. at a home in the 6800 block of South Cornell Avenue, according to police.