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Jet Ski and Boat Crash Kills Two Teen Girls on Lake Marie
ANTIOCH (June 24, 2024) – Two teenage girls ages 13 and 16 were killed while riding a Yamaha WaveRunner jet ski after crashing into a boat on Lake Marie. Fox News reports that the older of the two was operating the vehicle while the 13-year-old sat as the passenger. The…
5 Injured in Rogers Park Car Crash
CHICAGO (June 18, 2024) – Five people were critically injured after a speeding driver crashed Wednesday evening in the Rogers Park neighborhood. FOX 32 reports three children and two adults were taken to the hospital after the incident and left in critical condition. A 13-year-old boy was riding his bike near the…
One Killed and One Injured at University of Chicago Construction Site
CHICAGO (June 12, 2024) – After falling from a scaffold located on the University of Chicago Medical Center campus, one construction worker was killed and one was critically injured. The two steel workers were structuring the iron interior of a new cancer research center in Hyde Park on Thursday morning…
3 School Buses Crash and Leave 11 Children Hospitalized
CHICAGO (May 21, 2024) – On Tuesday morning around 8:35 a.m., three school buses filled with Reed Custer Middle School students were heading to a field trip while driving in the right lane of I-55. Traffic slowed to a stop, but the last school bus was unable to stop in…
One Dead After Bus Hits Hawaii Cruise Ship Terminal
HONOLULU (April 16, 2024) – One person was killed and many others were injured when a bus crashed into two concrete barriers and pinned pedestrians against a wall at a cruise ship terminal in Honolulu. The 57-year-old bus driver was dropping off customers off at the cruise terminal in Honolulu…
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses After Cargo Ship Collision
BALTIMORE (March 26, 2024) – A container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, causing it to fall into the Patapsco River below. Search and rescue teams immediately launched efforts to locate survivors who may have plunged into the water during the collapse, with several…
Alaska Airlines Door ‘plug’ Flew Off Minutes After Takeoff
CHICAGO (January 9) – An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. was only minutes into its journey when a door plug unexpectedly blew off leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. The door plug malfunctioned when the aircraft reached approximately 16,000 feet, an NTSB…
38 Injured in Largest CTA Train Crash in Decades
Updated on Friday, November 17 CHICAGO (November 17, 2023) – After a CTA Yellow Line train collided with a train snowplow on the tracks Thursday morning, 38 people were left injured at the Howard Street Switching Station NBC reported. This is the largest CTA train crash in decades. The fire…
Bedford Park Tent Collapse Sends 26 People to Hospital
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (September 15, 2023) – After a tent collapsed in Bedford Park, Illinois, 26 people were taken to a nearby hospital, according to Chicago’s WGN News Of those 26 people, 5 remain in serious condition as of Friday morning. The tent collapse happened during an “employee appreciation event” luncheon…
8 Injured in Explosion at Decatur Solvent Extraction Plant
DECATUR, Ill. (September 12, 2023) – An explosion occurred just after 7 p.m. Sunday in Decatur, Illinois, a large city about 180 miles southwest of Chicago. The explosion happened at the east plant of the Archer Daniels Midland Company facility and injured at least eight people with six of them…
