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Updated: Oct 28, 2015 at 04:58 PM
1. Just as they've done every year on Oct. 25, families, firefighters and police officers gathered in Fox River Grove on Sunday to remember the deadly 1995 school bus accident that killed seven students. "Time goes on and you have to live life. But ...
Updated: Oct 26, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Though the intersection at Algonquin Road and Northwest Highway in Fox River Grove has changed, it is impossible to drive past it without thinking, even if only briefly, of the tragedy that took place there.
It was 20 years ago that a school bus cro...
Published: Oct 24, 2015 at 03:00 PM
On Sunday morning, just as they've done every year on Oct. 25, a small group of families, firefighters and police officers will gather at the site of the deadly 1995 school bus accident in Fox River Grove.
They'll hug hello and talk for a while. The...
Updated: Oct 27, 2015 at 02:55 PM
Standing near a memorial at Algonquin Road and the Union Pacific tracks, Fox River Grove Police Chief Ron Lukasik points north.
"The bus was facing that way," he says. "It was spun around and took out that light pole. It ended up here."
As Lukasik t...
Updated: Oct 25, 2015 at 07:36 PM
Next to the train tracks that run through Fox River Grove, Jim Kreher pulls a weed growing near the memorial at Algonquin Road and Northwest Highway.
He tidies up a bit more, then glances at the memorial's centerpiece - a large rock inscribed with t...
Updated: Oct 26, 2015 at 11:12 AM
Editor's Note: This article appeared in the Daily Herald in the fall of 1995 after the Fox River Grove train-bus crash that killed seven students.
At first after the crash, the inside of the darkened school bus echoed with an eerie silence....
Published: Oct 24, 2015 at 08:00 AM
After the noise, cries and chaos that came when a high-speed commuter train slammed into a loaded school bus 10 years ago today, a silence fell over Fox River Grove.
It was the silence of a community in shock, disbelief and mourning.
It was t...
Published: Oct 24, 2015 at 08:00 AM
Saturday's results
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Class 2A Antioch regional
At Fox River Park, Burlington, WI
TEAM SCORES
Grayslake Central 18, Lakes 102, Richmond-Burton 103, Woodstock 107, Grayslake North 114, Carmel 130
Antioch 177, Woodstock North 212, Marian Central 238....
Updated: Oct 25, 2015 at 12:57 AM
Saturday's results
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Class 3A Lake Forest regional
At Lake Forest West Campus
TEAM SCORES
Lake Forest 30, Stevenson 40, Highland Park 67, Libertyville 91, Mundelein 150, Warren 152, Zion-Benton 211, Round Lake 233.
Advancing teams
Lake Forest - Gar...
Updated: Oct 25, 2015 at 12:57 AM