Published Saturday June 15 2013 6:42 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, SUV vs fire hydrant crash
Arlington Heights police responded about 2:31 AM Saturday to a property damage crash involving a fire hydrant at Hawthorne Street and Dunton Avenue Arlington Heights, IL. Police discovered that a Nissan Xterra was involved in a crash with a fire hydrant. The Xterra had front-end damage. Police said the crash was not a DUI crash. [...]
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Published Thursday May 23 2013 11:13 am. Tags: power outage, power outage Arlington Heights, power outage Buffalo Grove
Buffalo Grove police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 11:07 AM Thursday to incidents related to a large power outage in the area of Dundee and Arlington Heights Road Buffalo Grove, IL. Police received a report of traffic signals off or disrupted along Dundee Road at Arlington Heights Road and at Weidner Road. Police dropped Stop Signs [...]
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Published Friday April 26 2013 7:05 am. Tags: power failure, power failure Arlington Heights, power failure Elk Grove Village
Com Ed works on power failure at Goebbert Road and Falcon Drive, Arlington Heights. Power failures Friday morning and early Thursday morning in Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights are affecting residents and businesses. A widespread power failure was affecting Elk Grove Village residents and business near Arlington Heights Road and Landmeier, and near Northwest [...]
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Published Thursday April 18 2013 10:14 am. Tags: flooding, road closures
UPDATE: Arlington Heights Road was re-opened at noon. Elk Grove Village police are shutting down Arlington Heights Road between Algonquin Road and Higgins Road. Traffic will have access to Interstate 90 interchange at Arlington Heights Road, but will not be allowed to go south past the interchange. Arlington Heights Road is expected to be blocked [...]
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Published Thursday April 18 2013 7:54 am. Tags: road hazard
Police in Chicagoland have received multiple reports of manhole covers blown off opening because of surging water through the drainage systems. In Arlington Heights, blown off manhole covers have been reported on eastbound Palatine frontage road, and at the intersection of Miner Street and Gibbons Avenue. WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: Manhole cover blows from pressure at [...]
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Published Thursday March 21 2013 6:44 pm. Tags: Arlington Heights Fire Department, Arlington Heights Police Department, crash, crash Arlington Heights, rollover crash, rollover crash Arlington Heights
Jeep Grand Cherokee and red Toyota Camry after crash at Pine Avenue and Fremont Street. Arlington Heights police received a report about 3:23 PM Thursday of a rollover crash at Pine Avenue and Fremont Street Arlington Heights, IL. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that burgundy Toyota and a green Jeep Grand Cherokee. The driver [...]
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Published Thursday March 21 2013 8:35 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, lost property, lost property Arlington Heights, lost property WOW!, WOW!, WOWWAY
Arlington Heights police received a report of lost property in the area of 299 North Dunton Avenue on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. A Wide Open West Company (WOW) employee reported that a Cable Signal Meter may have fallen out of a work van. The Cable Signal Meter is described as a dark purple – rectangular [...]
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Published Monday March 18 2013 6:38 am. Tags: Elk Grove Village Police Department, train derailment, train derailment Elk Grove Village
Elk Grove Village police responded about 6:28 AM Monday to a freight train derailment at Busse and Arthur Elk Grove Village, IL. Police on the scene reported they discovered a train derailment at Busse and Arthur. Police have blocked intersections at Busse Road and Pratt Boulevard, and Busse Road and Arthur Avenue. Elmhurst Road was [...]
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Published Wednesday March 13 2013 10:46 pm. Tags: animal bite, animal complaint, pit bull, Pit Bull bite, Pit Bull bite Rolling Meadows, Rolling Meadows Fire Department, Rolling Meadows Police Department
Rolling Meadows police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 10:31 PM Wednesday to a report of an animal bite in the block of 2600 block of Kirchoff Road Rolling Meadows, IL. Police received a report that a woman was bitten by a pit bull and had locked herself in a bathroom to protect herself from further attack. [...]
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Published Wednesday March 13 2013 4:14 pm. Tags: Chicago, Cook County Sheriff's Police, Cook County Sheriff’s Eviction Unit, Python, Python Chicago
CHICAGO, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Eviction Unit deputies found an unusual inhabitant of a Chicago apartment this morning: a three-foot Burmese Python, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. About 8:40 a.m. Tuesday, deputies enforcing a court-ordered eviction in the 500 block of East Bowen Avenue in Chicago found the python in an aquarium located [...]
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Published Thursday March 07 2013 3:35 pm. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, crash, multi-vehicle crash
Arlington Heights police responded about 3:20 PM Thursday two a multi-car crash at Hintz Road and Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights, IL. Police responded to a five-car crash at Hintz Road and Arlington Heights Road. Westbound Hintz Road at Chapel Hill and the southbound left turn lane at Arlington Heights Road are reported to have [...]
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Published Monday March 04 2013 8:39 am. Tags: Elk Grove Village Police Department, train derailment, train derailment Elk Grove Village
VIDEO: Union Pacific and Hulcher Railroad Services crews clear a railroad crossing after a train derailed about 2:50 a.m. Monday. UPDATE: Elmhurst Road is open to traffic in both directions after derailed train cars were removed from the railroad tracks at the crossing just south of Pratt Boulevard. Video of scene and one of the [...]
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