Firefighters from across Illinois train in Glenview for battling high-rise fires
The training comes one week after a Chicago firefighter collapsed and died in the stairwell of a Gold Coast high rise.
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The training comes one week after a Chicago firefighter collapsed and died in the stairwell of a Gold Coast high rise.
Hundreds of firefighters from across the Chicago area gathered in Glenview on Wednesday for some intense training simulating a raging fire in a high-rise building. CBS 2's Noel Brennan reported it's a rare chance for hands-on training that could save lives.
Police say officers responded to the Tropical Smoothie Café, located at 2759 Pfingsten Road, around 8:55 p.m. for a report of an armed robbery.
Police say there is no threat to the public.
Police say there is no threat to the public.
One person is in custody after a woman was killed following a hit-and-run crash on the Tri-State Tollway early Saturday morning.
Pratib Ranjit, 24, is charged with aggravated battery and unlawful restraint.
Bond was set at $750,000 Thursday for a Glenview man accused of attempting to kidnap a girl who had just gotten off a school bus this week.
The girl and the man both fell to the ground, police said. The girl hit the man, and he ran away, police said.
Initial reports revealed two employees got into an argument when one displayed a firearm and fire a shot at the other worker.
When one woman watched the Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapse on the field in Monday night's football game, it brought back memories of her own experience, when her daughter died after sudden cardiac arrest on a Glenview soccer field.
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The fire started around 11:35 p.m. Sunday in the detached coach house and garage of a home in the 1800 block of Jefferson Avenue.
A firefighter and a civilian were injured after a coach house caught fire overnight in north suburban Glenview.
The fire broke out in the large, upscale house at 1701 Annapolis Dr., just north of Lake Avenue and west of Lehigh Avenue.
The fire broke out in the large, upscale house at 1701 Annapolis Dr. Kris Habermehl reports from Chopper 2.
Dispatchers from across the North Shore responded to those first calls on July 4th – from Highland Park to Glenview. Two of them told CBS 2's Marissa Perlman what the experience was actually like.
Dispatchers from across the North Shore responded to those first calls on July 4th – from Highland Park to Glenview.
Glenview Police are searching for the person who robbed an antique store Thursday morning.
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None of the 178 passengers and crewmembers on the train was reported to be injured, Amtrak said.
A Mount Prospect woman was charged Friday with striking and killing a man riding a bicycle in Glenview last summer – and then driving off.
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A bicyclist is dead after a hit-and-run in Glenview early Saturday morning.
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