Articles filed under Transportation
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Report: Metra police were untrained in firearms, didn’t ride trainsJan 22, 2014 3:48 pm - After months of secrecy, Metra finally released a scathing report Wednesday about its police force that gives details about how officers rarely rode trains and were not ...
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Train scrapes front of car in PalatineJan 22, 2014 3:43 pm - A Palatine woman who got caught in traffic too close to the railroad tracks Wednesday morning had the front of her vehicle scraped by a Metra train, Palatine police said...
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Buffalo Grove moves forward with Weiland Road planJan 22, 2014 3:18 pm - Citing the overall good of the community, the Buffalo Grove village board this week moved the Weiland Road-Lake-Cook Road improvement project to its next phase, despite ...
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Suburban woman charged with abandoning alligator at O’HareJan 22, 2014 1:54 pm - An Oakbrook Terrace woman who authorities say abandoned a sickly alligator at O’Hare International Airport in November has been charged with reckless conduct and cruelty...
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Buffalo Grove moves forward with Weiland Road planJan 22, 2014 10:55 am - Project would widen Weiland, Lake-Cook in Buffalo Grove
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Downtown Palatine street to receive faceliftJan 21, 2014 3:54 pm - The Palatine village council voted earlier this week to hire Bollinger Lach and Associates, a civil engineering firm based in Itasca, to design improvements to Wilson St...
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Mice under the hood and other winter car issuesJan 20, 2014 4:15 am - Cheer up. I know we've got potholes everywhere, switch failures on Metra and more bad weather on the way, but the Chicago Auto Show is coming Feb. 8 and, after that, spr...
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BG has no need to widen Weiland Rd.Jan 20, 2014 4:00 am - I have lived off Weiland Road since 1976. The Daily Herald article did not mention that the homes Buffalo Grove wants to condemn to widen Weiland are unincorporated. Not...
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Accident closes River Road in Des PlainesJan 17, 2014 7:45 pm - River Road between Golf and Rand roads in Des Plaines was closed for nearly six hours while crews cleared the scene of an accident involving a semitrailer truck carrying...
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Auto shows doing more for womenJan 17, 2014 6:23 pm - DETROIT — Women now buy nearly half the new cars in the U.S., a sharp increase compared with a generation ago, and the auto industry is trying to demonstrate that it’s k...