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For two decades, one of the most commonly used type of rail tanker has been allowed to haul hazardous liquids from coast to coast even though transportation officials were aware of a dangerous design flaw that almost guarantees the car will tear ope...
Updated: Sep 12, 2012 at 06:48 PM
Jeff Bonta of Arlington Heights isn’t your typical retiree. After he was laid off from the former Motorola Inc., just before it split into two companies, the 28-year veteran engineer later qualified for his pension.
That’s when he started his own c...
Updated: Sep 03, 2012 at 07:00 AM
East Dundee fire district trustees will hold a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, to discuss an ordinance that would place a referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot to sell general obligations bonds to build a new fire station.
The special meet...
Updated: Aug 14, 2012 at 12:06 PM
A 76-year-old Deer Park was killed and two other people were injured in an accident on Cuba Road, authorities said.
William Wang, of the 24000 block of Hunters Lane in Deer Park, was pronounced dead at Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington at 1:54 p...
Updated: Aug 09, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Insecticide in a leaking, unmarked container was to blame for a hazardous materials response at a Barrington-area home that left one firefighter hospitalized Thursday morning.
The pesticide later was identified as Malathion, commonly used to control...
Updated: Jul 21, 2012 at 01:09 PM
While fans watched Chicago Bears No. 88 tight end Desmond Clark work the field in 2006, the Lakeland, Fla., native earned his real estate license in Florida. After all, he said he needed to establish a profession once he transition out of the NFL.
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Updated: Jul 17, 2012 at 08:05 AM
An 18-year-old Lincolnshire man has been charged with causing the 18-acre wildfire in Long Grove on the Fourth of July, officials said Friday.
Tyler Cook, of the 0-100 block of Kings Cross Drive, was lighting illegal fireworks in the slough while a...
Updated: Dec 05, 2017 at 09:53 AM
Investigators have returned to the scene of a large slough fire that sparked Wednesday afternoon.
Long Grove fire officials said the cause of the blaze that sparked north of Route 53, near Middlefax Drive, is still under investigation, but said clea...
Updated: Jul 06, 2012 at 03:36 PM
Dive teams have returned to the shores of west Loon Lake this morning to resume the search for the body of a 62-year-old man who was unable to get back on a boat in Antioch Township on Thursday afternoon.
Deputy Chief Chris Leinhardt of the Antioch ...
Updated: Jun 30, 2012 at 09:10 AM
Farmers are frowning, firefighters are wincing and gardeners are wringing hands as a punishing drought and scorching heat dig in throughout Illinois with no reprieve in sight.
Temperatures expected to hit 100 today and less than 2 inches of rain sin...
Updated: Jun 29, 2012 at 06:33 AM