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Published Friday May 10 2019 8:48 am.
Arlington Heights Public Works crews are working to repair a catch basin involved in a small sinkhole at a westbound Euclid Avenue curb near Douglas Avenue. EUCLID AVE LIVE TRAFFIC Westbound Euclid Avenue is detoured to northbound Hickory Avenue to westbound Hawthorne Street to southbound Haddow Avenue, back to Euclid Avenue. Douglas Avenue is blocked […]
Posted in Construction
Published Tuesday May 07 2019 5:26 pm.
Boeing didn’t disclose to airlines or federal regulators that a warning light wasn’t working until after one of two plane crashes. Boeing reported Sunday May 5, 2019 in a press conference that the company discovered after airlines had been flying its 737 MAX aircraft for several months that a warning light integrated with MCAS (Maneuvering […]
Posted in Air Travel, Gov, Law
Published Monday April 29 2019 9:36 am.
Plants are the new pets. For some, they’re sending their orchids to an expert, where the blooms can get special care. CBS Evening News Steve Hartman explains. Founded in 1989, Chadwick’s is Richmond’s premier orchid supplier. There are two locations: the greenhouses are located on 18 acres in rural Powhatan County, and the retail store […]
Posted in Cardinal Couch Tours
Published Thursday April 25 2019 11:06 pm.
Volvo Cars to deploy in-car cameras and intervention against intoxication and distraction. Automakers are doing their best to come up with ways to keep the roads safe. Volvo wants to release its drunk driving prevention car in 2020. Learn more here. Volvo’s Drunk Driving Prevention Car Could Save Lives Americans die every day from drunk […]
Posted in ARLINGTON-CARS.COM
Published Friday April 19 2019 9:51 am.
The Village of Arlington Heights reports that a white van with a large white front bumper will be driving slowly on streets in Arlington Heights soon. VAH says not to be alarmed if you see it on Village roadways from April 21 – May 2. The hired contractor, IMS or Infrastructure Management Services will be […]
Posted in Streets
Published Tuesday April 09 2019 11:59 pm.
Zendrive CEO Jonathan Matus says that distracted driving is on the rise in the U.S. and that phone addicts are more dangerous than drunk drivers. A Zendrive study found that phone addicts picked up their phones 49 times every 100 miles. Pedestrian fatalities are at a 30 year high. In the United States, 6,227 pedestrians […]
Posted in GO!
Published Sunday April 07 2019 3:10 pm.
Informational meetings for businesses and residents have been set for Monday, April 8, 2019. One meeting for business is already completed, and was held on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. An additional meeting for businesses is scheduled for Monday, April 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the Board Room, located on the third floor […]
Posted in Construction
Published Saturday April 06 2019 2:41 pm.
Palatine Road Resurfacing Project Stretches from Northwest Highway (US 14) to Milwaukee Avenue (US 45/IL 21). The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is scheduled to begin a Spring-Summer-Fall resurfacing project for Palatine Road from Northwest Highway in Palatine, through Arlington Heights and up to Milwaukee Avenue in Wheeling/Prospect Heights. If the weather is acceptable, the […]
Posted in Chicago Traffic, Streets of Chicagoland
Published Friday April 05 2019 9:08 pm.
With so many recent advancements in modern aviation, plane crashes are becoming a rarity. Yet we still may wonder the reasons behind why planes crash. Reassurance in Knowledge: 4 Reasons Why Planes Crash Decades ago, around 80 percent of commercial airplane accidents were the result of a mechanical malfunction. Today, the chances of a mechanical […]
Posted in Air Travel
Published Sunday March 31 2019 2:55 pm.
As private space companies successfully test their thoughtfully constructed spacecrafts, we are learning that commercial flights to space could be coming soon. Space Tourism: Commercial Flights to Space Are Coming Soon With the rise of commercial flights to space, it is safe to say the age of space tourism has finally arrived. This past December, Virgin Galactic successfully sent SpaceShipTwo, […]
Posted in Air Travel
Published Wednesday March 27 2019 1:53 pm.
O'Hare Global Terminal and Global Concourse by Studio ORD from Studio Gang on Vimeo. Studio Gang, founded by Jeanne Gang, will be the architectural firm that will lead a team of architects tapped to design the $8.5 billion O’Hare International Airport expansion, according to an announcement Wednesday from Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “We’re an aviation capital, […]
Posted in Air Travel
Published Sunday March 24 2019 3:58 am.
Capt. Dennis Tajer of American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association explains what it’s like to fly the Boeing 737 Max 8, and why a new flight control system was a surprise to pilots. That system could have played a role in two recent Max 8 crashes (Washington Post). Pilots were once told that they […]
Posted in Air Travel
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