“ A night of enchanted elegance ” ended in tragedy when a student died in a crash hours after her senior prom, Illinois officials said. At about 4:30 a.m. on May 4, the 18-year-old crashed on a ramp off of Interstate 94 in Calumet City, Illinois State Police said. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The car crash occurred hours after the suburban high school prom, which took place at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Four people, all of them children or teenagers, were killed, and several others were injured on Monday when a car crashed through an after-school center in Chatham, Ill., a village just south of Springfield, the State Police said.