1 Dead, Another Injured Following Fiery Fuel Spill On Stevenson Expressway At Cicero
One person is dead and another is injured following a fuel spill on the I-55 Stevenson expressway between north of Cicero and south of Pulaski.
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One person is dead and another is injured following a fuel spill on the I-55 Stevenson expressway between north of Cicero and south of Pulaski.
A drunk driver fled the scene of a fiery crash on the Stevenson Expressway on Sunday, after slamming into the back of an on-duty Uber vehicle, killing 23-year-old Jamie Poulos, who was trapped inside the burning car, police said.
When a crash that set off a raging inferno on the Stevenson, Anastacio Morales' friends were trapped, but he didn't run from it. He ran to it.
An early morning shooting on the expressway left one driver dead and two passengers wounded.
A driver was killed when he rear-ended an Illinois Department of Transportation minuteman truck early Monday morning on the Stevenson Expressway.
A semi truck caught fire on the inbound Stevenson expressway, causing a major traffic backup on Tuesday morning.
Illinois State Police said the shooting happened around 11:50 a.m. in the southbound lanes near Kedzie.
Icy roads might be to blame for a deadly crash on the Stevenson Expressway overnight. Illinois State Police said an SUV was merging onto northbound I-55 at Cicero, when the driver lost control, and the vehicle rolled over.
The crash happened about 6:55 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 55 before Pulaski, according to Illinois State Police.
Crews have finished two years of construction to build new ramps connecting the Stevenson Expressway and Lake Shore Drive.
The day's latest homicide happened at 6:03 p.m. in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.
A man who carjacked a woman's vehicle on the Stevenson Expressway after a hit-and-run crash involving a state trooper last month has been arrested and charged, according to Illinois State Police.
A Lyft driver's car and another vehicle were hit by gunfire overnight on the Stevenson Expressway.
The state does not have the $2.7 billion needed to make the project a reality, including coming up with a final design.
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened about 9 p.m. Sunday in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Three people were shot and two were injured on the Stevenson Expressway late Friday on the South Side.
Governor Rauner is calling on Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan to quit "holding up" a plan to put a toll-lane in each direction of the Stevenson Expressway.
The closures are necessary to implement a new traffic pattern as a part of a reconstruction project on the interchange, IDOT said.
Nighttime lane closures are planned for the Stevenson Expressway starting Monday in the southwest suburbs.
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Several nightly lane and ramp closures are planned on the Stevenson Expressway starting Wednesday night for ongoing Lake Shore Drive interchange construction.
Two trucks erupted in flames on the Stevenson Expy, near Cicero, shutting down lanes in both directions.
An SUV was shot on the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) early Saturday on the South Side.
Two women have been charged in connection with a shooting in the Brighton Park neighborhood early Wednesday that led to a chase and ended with a rollover crash on the Stevenson Expressway.
The crash happened about 2:30 a.m. in the outbound lanes of I-55 near South La Grange Road, according to Illinois State Police.
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