I’m a lifelong resident of the Northwest suburbs, and I completed my journalism degree at Columbia College in Chicago in 2009. While attending school I interned at Community Media Workshop, a nonprofit organization that connects nonprofit communicators with media professionals.
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Blinking lights, orange construction horses and rough patches of roadway were the norm in Des Plaines on Friday. Tuesday should be better, travel-wise, according to reports from the city’s website.
While garbage including flood debris will be picked up on normally scheduled days, Shawn Hamilton, acting city manager of Park Ridge, said residents can put all their garbage at the curb for pick-up as soon as possible because more pickups would be made
The Des Plaines River rose to 10.9 feet on Friday, reported WBBM news radio, the highest it's been in 27 years.
The intersection of Rand and River roads was under about a foot of water in Des Plaines on Friday.
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Additional crossing gates would prevent commuters from walking unawares onto the railroad tracks on Pearson Street, said a shaken Des Plaines resident who witnessed a train hit and kill a pedestrian on Tuesday.
List of road closures in Des Plaines on Thursday.
List of road closures in Des Plaines on Thursday.
The flood stage projection for the Des Plaines River was 11.5 feet by 7 a.m. on Friday, April 19, according to the National Weather Service.
Road closures, school closures, sandbagging, directing traffic and other reactions to the weather.
Additional crossing gates would prevent commuters from wandering onto the railroad tracks on Pearson Street, said a Des Plaines resident who witnessed a fatal train and pedestrian crash on Tuesday.
Additional crossing gates would prevent commuters from wandering onto the railroad tracks on Pearson Street, said a Des Plaines resident who witnessed a fatal train and pedestrian crash on Tuesday.
Additional crossing gates would prevent commuters from wandering onto the railroad tracks on Pearson Street, said a Des Plaines resident who witnessed a fatal train and pedestrian crash on Tuesday.
The man was taken to the hospital, the Daily Herald reported, and no other injuries were reported.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning on Wednesday.
Additional crossing gates would prevent commuters from wandering onto the railroad tracks on Pearson Street, said a Des Plaines resident who witnessed a fatal train and pedestrian crash on Tuesday.
Additional crossing gates would prevent commuters from wandering onto the railroad tracks on Pearson Street, said a Des Plaines resident who witnessed a fatal train and pedestrian crash on Tuesday.
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Des Plaines Police Chief William Kushner said a former police commander told officers that reporting information for a federally funded traffic enforcement campaign was OK when it was not.
It was not clear to one eyewitness whether the man walked or jumped into an oncoming Metra train.
