Chicago drivers may be in for a surprise in coming weeks when they check their mail. That is because the City of Chicago has established speed cameras in some areas that will be used to issue speeding citations in the near future. Monday marks the first day that one of…
CTA train riders may have found their transit times delayed early yesterday morning along the red line tracks due to an earlier train derailment. Police have reported that a CTA train entered the station at 63rd Street and Ashland Avenue experienced what the CTA calls a “minor derailment,” leaving the…
Authorities believe that a semi truck driver may be at fault for starting a deadly crash on Thursday night. Officials believe that an SUV was stopped in a construction zone on I-65 near Roselawn, Indiana and was waiting for traffic to move. A second semi truck approached the SUV from…
A 22-year-old man was rollerblading in Lombard last Tuesday evening when he was hit and killed by a van. The victim, a resident of Lombard, was at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Highland Avenue around 9:00 p.m. when he began to cross. Police say that the man was crossing…
A Saturday motorcycle crash left a biker critically injured and forced officials to shut down a portion of Lake Shore Drive temporarily, according to local police. The accident occurred shortly before 8:00 p.m. near the northbound ramp to the Stevenson Expressway. Emergency officials responded to the scene and found the…
Police believe that the driver of a minivan mistook the gas pedal for the brake outside an elementary school on Wednesday, sending the van crashing through the school’s entrance. The incident occurred in the afternoon at Woodland Middle School in Gurnee. The driver of the minivan, described only as a…
Authorities recently charged an 18-year-old man with aggravated battery of a taxi driver, criminal damage to property, and theft of labor in an incident in the South Shore neighborhood. The teen has been arrested and is in jail in lieu of a $125,000 bond. Police say that the teen hired…
A Friday morning crash on Interstate 57 sent nine children and at least one adult to the hospital for treatment of injuries, according to local police. The incident occurred shortly after midnight on the highway near 99th Street and involved only one car, a Chevrolet Suburban. Police report that nine…
Authorities are not quite sure what caused a water tank to fall from the top of the Brewster building near Belmont Harbor on Wednesday morning but they are sure that three people were injured in the incident, one of whom was critically injured by the tank. The Brewster building is…
A mass memorial is planned for Monday evening to celebrate the lives of 79 passengers who were killed last week while riding aboard a Spanish train that derailed. New video footage of the derailment has been obtained by ABC and shows just how devastating the crash was. The…