Off-duty fire captain delivers his own daughter on busy Chicago area freeway

LINCOLNWOOD, IL -- Dan Lynch, a fire captain with the Evanston Fire Department, delivered his own baby on the outbound Edens Expressway at West Touhy Avenue, the Lincolnwood Fire Department confirmed.

Emergency crews received a call about a woman who went into labor on the side of the road along northbound I-94 around 4:30 a.m. Friday. Lynch said his wife Elizabeth went into labor overnight. The Lynchs, who live in Edison Park, were on their way to Evanston Hospital when they had to stop to deliver the baby.

Elizabeth gave birth to a daughter named Mary Margaret Lynch, the couple's fifth child. Both mom and daughter are doing well.