Police said a 26-year-old woman was headed south on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near Balbo Drive around 7:40 p.m., when she veered off the road and her blue sedan plunged into Lake Michigan.

A woman, 26, was driving southbound in the 800 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive at 7:42 p.m. Saturday when she veered off the road and into Lake Michigan, police said. She was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a long-awaited $1.15 billion project to stop the movement of invasive carp up Illinois waterways and into Lake Michigan. A groundbreaking ceremony had originally been scheduled for Tuesday.