Tag result for article published on Wed February 03 2016 8:55 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: missing person, missing person Northbrook, Northbrook, Northbrook Police Department
Northbrook police responded Monday morning to a report from family members that an 83-year-old woman, Olga Villareal, was missing. She was found dead Monday afternoon less than a half-mile from her home. Northbrook officials had asked for the public’s help about 9 a.m. Monday, and posted information on their website. Villareal, who had last been […]
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Tag result for article published on Sat February 02 2013 7:28 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: burglary, burglary to residence, FBI, FBI sting, Northbrook, Northbrook Police Department, official misconduct, official misconduct Northbrook, police corruption, police official misconduct, residential burglary
Enrique Guzman (Cook County Sheriff’s Police photo). After several suspicious thefts and burglaries involving police work by Northbrook police officer Enrique Guzman, Northbrook police and the FBI began a five-month investigation that culminated in a sting operation that dispatched Guzman to a home with concealed video cameras. FBI agents concealed three video cameras in a […]
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Tag result for article published on Thu November 15 2012 8:39 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: barn fire, commercial garage fire, garage fire, landscaping garage fire, Northbrook, Northbrook Fire Department
VIDEO: Firefighters extinguish a fully-involved landscaping garage fire at Wilson Lawn and Landscaping at Pfingsten Rd and Highland Rd in unincorporated Northbrook. Northbrook firefighter/paramedics and Cook County Sheriff’s police deputies responded about 5:13 PM Wednesday to a report of a fire in a barn at 2500 Pfingsten Road. Firefighter/paramedics reported a well-involved commercial landscaping business […]
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Tag result for article published on Thu July 05 2012 6:57 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Glenview, Northbrook, train derailment
VIDEO: Train derailment aftermath on Shermer Rd with neighbor reports of the sound and vibrations of the crash, and a police press conference from Glenview Deputy Chief Phil Perlini. A second body was found Thursday inside a car that was covered with coal and train cars that piled onto Shermer Road on Wednesday, July 4, […]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG C, Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook
Tag result for article published on Sun December 04 2011 10:49 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Edens Spur, extrication accident, fatal crash, I-94, Illinois State Police, Interstate 94, Northbrook, Northbrook Fire Department, trauma alert
Northbrook firefighter/paramedics and Illinois State police responded about 5:37 p.m. Saturday to two car crash on the outbound Edens I-94 spur. Ersin Rolando Aguirre, 40, was killed when his 1995 Chevrolet Prizm was hit on the driver’s side on the outbound I-94 Edens spur ramp just east of Waukegan Road. His car was hit while […]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG C, Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook
Tag result for article published on Sat November 19 2011 5:12 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: carjack, carjacking, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department, Dundee Road, Edens Expressway, EMS Plan I, Illinois State Police, Interstate 94, Northbrook, Northbrook Police Department, vehicular hijacking
Northbrook Police were alerting area police departments of a vehicular hijacking from 3115 Dundee Road in Northbrook about 3:56 p.m. when a crash involving that vehicle — a white 2011 Toyota Sienna — was reported about 3:57 p.m. Saturday on southbound Interstate 94, the Edens Expressway at Peterson. All southbound lanes of the Edens Expressway […]
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Posted in CRIME BLOG B, CRIME BLOG C
Tag result for article published on Fri September 23 2011 8:31 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: house fire, Northbrook, Northfield, vacant house fire
Northbrook and Northfield firefighter/paramedics responded about 7:30 a.m. Friday to a report of a house fire in the 1000 block of Shermer Road, between Waukegan Road and Dundee Road. Firefighters reported the house appeared to be a vacant.
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Tag result for article published on Fri August 26 2011 5:11 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: DUI, DUI Arrest, fatal DUI, Northbrook
Jiho Lee (police photo). Jiho Lee, 22, of Buffalo Grove has ben charged Friday with two counts of aggravated DUI with great bodily harm, one count of aggravated DUI causing a fatality, and operating an uninsured vehicle. According to Northbrook Police Department Jiho Lee a car that collided around 1:30 a.m. Thursday with another vehicle […]
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Tag result for article published on Fri August 26 2011 12:54 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: extrication accident, extrication crash, fatal crash, Northbrook
Northbrook police and firefighter/paramedics responded just after 1:30 a.m. Thursday to crash with entrapment on Sanders Road near Bordeaux Court. Firefighters confirmed they were working an extrication rescue for a crash involving three vehicles. It’s possible that the third vehicle reported at the scene may have been an uninvolved vehicle Later Thursday police released the […]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG B, Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook
Tag result for article published on Sat August 06 2011 9:24 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Northbrook, stabbing
Northbrook firefighter/paramedics and police responded about 9:15 p.m. Saturday to a report of a stabbing victim at or near Shermer Road/Village Green Park. Firefighter/paramedics evaluated a stabbing victim at the scene and transported the victim to to a local hospital. View Larger Map
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Posted in CRIME BLOG C
Tag result for article published on Fri April 01 2011 5:55 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: ComEd Commonwealth Edison, Northbrook, Northbrook Fire Department
Northbrook police and firefighter/paramedics responded to the Metra Northbrook train station,1401 Shermer Road on the Milwaukee District/North Line, about 1:45 p.m. Thursday to a report of an injured Commonwealth Edison employee. The man was transported to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. No word available whether the injuries were life threatening. Several ComEd […]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG C, Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook
Tag result for article published on Thu November 25 2010 10:24 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: fire, fire exposure problems, house fire, Northbrook
Northbrook police and firefighter/paramedics responded just before 5:00 AM Thursday to a report of a house fire in the 2100 block of Ash Lane. Firefighter fought a well-involved fire in a ranch house with risk to adjacent homes. The fire was extinguished by 5:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Day. No word on injuries. Amazon.com Widgets View Larger […]
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