Person Arrested For Gun Possession After Kennedy Expressway Crash
The two-vehicle crash happened about 12:30 a.m. on I-90/94 near Addison, according to Illinois State Police.
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The two-vehicle crash happened about 12:30 a.m. on I-90/94 near Addison, according to Illinois State Police.
A 28-year-old woman has been charged with driving under the influence after she crashed into the back of an Illinois State Police trooper's vehicle who was in the middle of a traffic stop early Sunday on the Kennedy Expressway near Bucktown on the North Side.
The motorcycle was speeding in the southbound lanes of I-90/94 near Montrose Avenue at 4:20 a.m. when the cyclist lost control and the bike struck a wall, according to Illinois State Police Trooper David Roman.
Work began this past weekend to shift traffic between Illinois Route 31 and Illinois Route 25 onto the new Fox River Bridge and shift westbound traffic between Beverly Road and Illinois Route 25 onto new pavement, according to a statement from the Illinois Tollway.
Anyone who has used the Kennedy Expressway at rush hour knows how bad the traffic can be, so it should come as no big surprise that it has been ranked as the worst bottleneck in the country.
A new traffic configuration on the outbound Eisenhower Expressway west of the Kennedy Expressway will start Friday as part of a project to reconstruct the Jane Byrne Interchange.
A 16-year-old boy was shot late Friday while he was in a vehicle on an exit ramp of the Kennedy Expressway in the Northwest Side Bucktown neighborhood.
The single-vehicle crash happened at 2:04 a.m. in the outbound lanes of the Kennedy (I-90/94) near Addison Street, according to Illinois State Police.
Around 5:10 a.m., someone shot a car headed west on the Kennedy near Sayre Avenue, police said. The driver of the car was not injured, and only the vehicle was struck.
IDOT warns motorists to expect delays when driving through the interchange during the weekends of Aug 21-23, Aug 28-30, Sept. 25-27 and Oct. 16-18.
A person was killed and two others were seriously injured in a crash involving a semi-truck on the Kennedy Expressway near the Loop early Wednesday, shutting down most of the inbound side of the expressway.
Three people suffered minor injuries early Friday, when someone in another vehicle shot up their car on the Dan Ryan Expressway, the 19th shooting so far this year on Chicago area expressways, matching last year's total for the entire year.
The man, described only as an adult, was driving northbound on the Kennedy (I-90/94) near Belmont about 11 p.m. when his vehicle struck a light pole, then rolled over, Illinois State Police said.
A man died when he fell off his motorcycle early Saturday on the Kennedy Expressway on the North Side, police said.
A man drove onto a Kennedy Expressway entrance ramp after he was shot in the neck in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side Tuesday evening, police said.
Illinois State Police said, around 2:50 a.m., a passenger in a gold Chevrolet Impala fired shots at a semi-tractor trailer headed north on the Dan Ryan Expressway near Monroe Street.
Drivers approaching the Jane Byrne Interchange — now one of the nation's worst bottlenecks — will face a spaghetti bowl of detours and reduced lanes for more than a year after construction begins March 7 on a flyover bridge.
One person was injured in a rollover crash involving an SUV and a truck early Wednesday on the Kennedy Expressway in the Logan Square neighborhood.
A man was killed in a crash on the Kennedy Expressway downtown Friday afternoon.
Illinois State Police say a trooper had to go to a hospital early Sunday morning after he was struck in the face by a driver stopped for suspicion of DUI.
A taxi cab was just one of several vehicles that crashed into the median, or into each other, due to invisible slick spots while trying to get to the Kennedy late Thursday night or early Friday.
State officials on Friday tried to deflect blame for a major traffic jam on the inbound Kennedy Expressway, while apologizing to commuters for any inconvenience when two lanes were shut down to clean graffiti from a highway sign at Division Street.
About 2:05 a.m., a car driving the wrong way on the West Ohio Street ramp collided with another vehicle in the southbound lanes, Illinois State Police said.
All lanes on the northbound Kennedy Expressway have reopened on the Near West Side after a load of bricks spilled from a semi and scattered across two lanes early Thursday.
A wrong-way driver on the Kennedy Expressway caused a head-on crash that hurt four people early Sunday.
