Woman found strangled in East Garfield Park

A woman was found strangled early Thursday on a street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

She was discovered unre- sponsive at 1: 14 a. m. in the 3500 block of West Huron, according to police. The woman, thought to be between 40 and 50, suffered “blunt trauma to the face” and had “defensive wounds on her body,” police said.

An autopsy Thursday found she was strangled, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s officer. Her name has not yet been released.