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Published Monday March 23 2020 1:11 pm.
1,715 Snow scenes and Grandt’s Shell near Recreation Park during the first ‘Rush Hour’ during the Illinois Stay at Home Order in Arlington Heights. A quiet Monday on March 23, 2020 during the first business day of the Coronavirus Stay-at-Home Order in the State of Illinois. A beautiful snowfall that stuck to tree branches added […]
Posted in Air Travel, Outdoors
Published Monday March 23 2020 4:15 am.
64 On Monday morning, commuters who still have to get into Chicago for work will need to adjust to different schedules on Metra. CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker looks at how that may affect Metra’s finances. At least one train has seen a 95 percent drop in ridership. Metra could be losing $28 million per […]
Posted in Trains
Published Friday March 20 2020 3:00 pm.
30,779 Outbound Metra passenger train passing parked freight train hauling Oshkosh Defense military vehicles near Chicago on Thursday, March 19, 2020. The timing brought suspicions to many people when they spotted a freight train hauling military vehicles passing through Hampshire and other suburbs in Illinois on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Some people immediately assumed the […]
Posted in Cardinal News Popular, Preparedness, Trains
Published Thursday March 19 2020 10:17 am.
2,746 Overnight Wednesday/Thursday at about 1:15 a.m. Thursday, March 19, 2020, an outbound Metra train was arriving at the Arlington Heights Metra train station. The train was westbound at Arlington Heights Road, but as the train crossed Arlington Heights Road, the gates at Dunton Avenue, which were down, went up with the train approaching Evergreen […]
Posted in Trains
Published Tuesday March 17 2020 5:24 pm.
6,305 Midway International Airport (MDW) control tower was shut down Tuesday afternoon March 17, 2020 by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after several employees tested positive for Coronavirus COVID-19. The last flight believed to be allowed to take off is a Southwest Airlines flight to LaGuardia Airport (LGA). The aircraft took off about 5:12 p.m. […]
Posted in Air Travel
Published Tuesday March 17 2020 12:02 am.
619 Gas prices have dropped the last three weeks because of a drop in demand for gasoline associated with mitigation efforts to stop the spread of Coronavirus CIVID-19 Disease. More people are working at home or are not working at all; and students are not traveling to school. These are some of the situations that […]
Posted in ARLINGTON-CARS.COM
Published Sunday March 15 2020 12:34 pm.
671 The European travel ban activated by Proclamation by President of the United States Donald J. Trump went into effect at midnight Friday (actually 11:59 p.m. on Friday/Saturday). The travel ban proclamation was announced Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The travel ban to and from Europe in the United States caused long, dense lines Saturday, March […]
Posted in Air Travel, FIRE BLOG C, Gov
Published Wednesday February 19 2020 8:41 am.
455 Ford revamped its popular Explorer SUV for the 2020 model year, but admittedly took on too much change with the Ford Explorer and developed some problems — all in the midst of Ford’s attempt at an overall financial turnaround. After the relaunch of the Ford Explorer in June 2019, Ford Explorer sales fell 48 […]
Posted in ARLINGTON-CARS.COM, Biz
Published Thursday February 13 2020 9:27 pm.
988 Attorney Ben Crain points out that there has been more than one accident involving Metra trains at 87th Street and Pulaski Road, and one of them left two people dead. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports. There’s no surprise for some people that there have been multiple crashes at the intersection of 87th Street […]
Posted in Design
Published Tuesday January 28 2020 11:54 pm.
143 As tributes continue for Kobe Bryant, new information is emerging about the helicopter crash that killed him, his daughter and seven others. Investigators are focusing on weather conditions in their search for clues. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY from Calabasas, California. “We’re looking for photos of the weather in the area of the […]
Posted in Air Travel
Published Tuesday January 28 2020 11:28 pm.
585 A Sikorsky S-76B Helicopter (N72EX) performing flight from Santa Ana KSNA was transitioning to the west of Van Nuys KVNY along the 101 Freeway in very marginal weather when suddenly crashed in the area of Calabasas. The S-76B Helicopter (N72EX) took off from KSNA (John Wayne Airport) at 9:06am and followed a northwesterly route […]
Posted in Air Travel
Published Wednesday January 15 2020 6:05 am.
58 The rear window of a VW Jetta was completely smashed by falling ice on Delaware Place near 875 North Michigan Avenue near the John Hancock Center. The owner of a VW Jetta discovered the back window of his vehicle was smashed Tuesday morning January 14, 2020 by falling ice while the vehicle was parked […]
Posted in GO!
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