Metra train hits pedestrian in Palatine; line halted
Inbound and outbound trains were stopped near the scene, and extensive delays were expected.
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Kris Habermehl is a traffic and breaking news reporter for CBS News Chicago.
Habermehl returned to CBS News Chicago in March, 2022.
Kris is CBS News Chicago's eye in the sky from Skywatch, providing traffic reports during the morning news and following breaking news from the air all day long.
He's a five-time Emmy Award winner, a licensed pilot and a lieutenant and training officer at the Kirkland Fire Depertment. Habermehl has been a pilot since he was a young boy.
Habermehl is known for his voice and incredible range of knowledge, not to mention his pristine attention to detail.
CBS News Chicago's Ed Curran put it, "Kris doesn't just tell you there's a fire; he tells you what's burning by the color of the smoke."
Inbound and outbound trains were stopped near the scene, and extensive delays were expected.
The barn collapsed in the 10800 block of Weidner Road in unincorporated McHenry County outside Harvard.
Tinley Park saw golf-ball-sized hail and Orland Park saw ping-pong-sized hail, according to the National Weather Service.
On Friday morning, University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos wrote that the protest encampment is disrupting campus and "cannot continue."
It took firefighters about five hours to get control of the flames and smoke in the rear of the vacant hotel at 200 N. Green Bay Rd.
Riders should expect some trains and platforms to be busier than usual as normal service is restored.
Two people were taken in serious to critical condition to Mt. Sinai Hospital for gunshot wounds.
It appeared that the fire might have spread up into the roof.
A motive was not known as of late Thursday, and police have not established a relationship between Crane and the woman.
Flames burned through the coach house, and it appeared that about half the roof was gone once the fire was out.
All lanes of northbound Interstate 57 were blocked on Tuesday morning at Sibley Boulevard.
Flammable items such as fuel were in the trailer, prompting a hazmat response for the fire.
Protesters were wearing signs reading "Free Palestine" and "Stop Genocide" blocked all lanes of traffic headed to the O'Hare terminals.
CBS 2's photographer observed a firefighter being transported to the scene for medical care. The firefighter was awake and alert.
A wrong-way driver slammed into a garbage truck in the outbound lanes around 5:45 a.m.