Illinois State Police charge driver in a deadly I-57 crash.
Twenty-three-year-old Isaac Espejel is charged with reckless homicide and drunk driving. He was the only survivor in the crash that killed two passengers.
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Twenty-three-year-old Isaac Espejel is charged with reckless homicide and drunk driving. He was the only survivor in the crash that killed two passengers.
One person was injured in the incident. Illinois State Police are investigating the crash.
Police said last Sunday, 31-year-old Lamont Ross shot at a car driving on the entrance ramp from Independence to the eastbound Eisenhower Expressway.
Nathan Sweeney, 44, of DeKalb was charged with reckless homicide and driving under the influence in the crash that killed Deputy Christina Musil, 35.
The driver of the Jeep was ticketed for DUI and violating Scott's Law.
Police say Destiny Dixon was one of the people who stopped to help the driver trapped inside a flipped car when another car sped through the crash scene, hitting Dixon and another man.
ISP is also extending the deadline for the next round of applications to May 1.
Starting July 1 of this year, all new troopers will earn a total compensation above $90,000. To allow more people to earn this increased pay, the Illinois State Police (ISP) is also extending the application deadline to May 1.
It happened Wednesday afternoon, just after 3:00.
Illinois State Police were called to the northbound Bishop Ford Freeway near 170th Street for a rollover crash, and found the man who had crashed had been shot.
Preliminary information indicated that a black Mitsubishi sedan lost control for an unknown reason and struck the right concrete median before swerving left and striking a blue Hyundai SUV.
Illinois State Police said two cars crashed in the local lanes on I-90 at Pulaski Road just before 4 a.m.
Illinois State Police announced that Ruben Barajas, 31, of North Riverside, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with attempted murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
The trooper was taken to an area hospital for treatment and was released.
The crash shut down the eastbound lanes of the tollway here for five hours before they were reopened.
Calvin D. Woods, 32, was arrested by the ISP Division of Criminal Investigation Zone 1 East Violent Crimes Unit. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Illinois State Police said the crash happened around 11:15 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-94 at 34th Street.
Preliminary information revealed a car was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of traffic when it struck a tow truck – causing it to strike a third car.
ISP troopers responded to eastbound I-70 just west of milepost 151 around 5:41 p.m. for a crash involving a squad car that was struck by another car.
Troopers responded to the location around 4 a.m. for a report of a theft at the 7-Eleven store. When troopers arrived, a man ran out of the convenience store and forced someone at the gas pump to give up their car.
Illinois State Police said around 3:10 a.m., troopers attempted to make a traffic stop on a stolen car, a silver Ford, on westbound I-290 at Damen.
At one point all lanes were closed.
An early morning shooting on the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago's Near West Side left a 25-year-old man dead and shut down the Paulina Street ramp for several hours on Thursday.
The trooper in a fully marked squad car with its emergency lights activated was stationary on the ramp after responding to a report of a tire in the roadway, ISP said.
Four of the five incidents were in the greater Chicago area, and three involved violations of the Move Over Law, also known as Scott's Law.
