By Jeremy Gorner and Carolyn Rusin | Chicago Tribune4:06 AM CDT, September 5, 2007
The pastor of a Ukrainian Catholic church on Chicago's Northwest Side died Tuesday after his bicycle and a sport-utility vehicle collided in Des Plaines, police said.
Rev. Pavlo Hayda, 42, was riding a bicycle eastbound in the 1900 block of East Oakton Street about 11 a.m. when the bicycle and the SUV collided as the SUV was exiting the driveway of an apartment complex, police in the northwest suburb said.
Father Hayda, the pastor of St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Byzantine-Catholic Church, 5000 N. Cumberland Ave., was pronounced dead at 12:27 p.m. at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, said Des Plaines Deputy Police Chief Bill Schneider.
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Parish website is www.stjosephucc.org