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$1 MILLION VERDICT FOR AN INJURED PREGNANT MOTORIST

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:09 by Admin
Pregnant motorist recovers $982k for fractured neck in expressway rollover A Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of a Berwyn couple totaling $982,000 for injuries sustained to a seven-mon... [More]

Person falls on to CTA tracks

Thursday, 6 May 2010 13:28 by Admin
May 5, 2010 11:46 PM | A person was treated for injuries after falling onto the tracks at a CTA "L" stop on the West Side tonight, a Fire Department spokesman said. The person was t... [More]

Alcohol blamed in double fatal northwest suburban crash

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:27 by Admin
April 8, 2010 9:50 PM |  Police said alcohol was a factor in a two-vehicle crash that killed two people and injured another in Barrington Hills Thursday afternoon. A little befo... [More]

Alcohol blamed in double fatal northwest suburban crash

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:15 by Admin
April 8, 2010 9:50 PM |  Police said alcohol was a factor in a two-vehicle crash that killed two people and injured another in Barrington Hills Thursday afternoon. A little befo... [More]

Fire ravages Manhattan apartment building; 2 hurt

Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:50 by Admin
March 17, 2010 6:54 PM  | UPDATED STORY Manhattan firefighters pour water on the apartment building blaze. (Warren Skalski/For the Chicago Tribune.) A fire heavily damaged a two-story, e... [More]

Child, 2 others hurt in car crash sought in shooting

Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:27 by Admin
March 17, 2010 9:42 PM | Three people were injured, including a child, Wednesday evening after a car being sought by Chicago police crashed into another car, officials and witnesses s... [More]

$330,000 settlement for construction site injury

Monday, 15 March 2010 11:34 by Admin
Plaintiff sustained injuries to his right knee after porch constrution collapsed.  Plaintiff's injuries consisted of a laseration on right knee which required seven stiches and then developed an ... [More]

Two hurt in crash near Woodfield

Friday, 12 March 2010 11:46 by Admin
The minivan driver hurt in a Monday morning accident near Woodfield Shopping Center had to be cut out of the vehicle but by late afternoon was no longer thought to havelife-threatening injuries, pol... [More]

Plane crash in Iran, 46 injured

Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:09 by Admin
Plane crash in Iran, 46 injured Sunday, January 24, 2010 TEHRAN, Iran – A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash landed in northeastern Iran on Sunday i... [More]

Schaumburg intersection re-opens after crash

Monday, 8 March 2010 16:44 by Admin
March 8, 2010 2:48 PM  UPDATED STORY Two men were injured, one seriously, in a two-vehicle crash this morning that shut down a major intersection in Schaumburg for about three hours. ... [More]

Auto crash turns happy evening into night for tears

Monday, 22 February 2010 10:10 by Admin
February 21, 2010 7:43 PM  UPDATED STORY Eva Centeno Cansino and her son, Luis Raul Valdivia, 16, display a picture of husband and father Luis Raul Valdivia-Segoviano on a computer scr... [More]

Driver injured in school bus accident

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:55 by Admin
January 27, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A school bus driver was injured in an accident Wednesday morning in northwest suburban Hanover Park, according to police. At 6:45 a.m. a school bus cra... [More]

Pedestrain, 85, killed by car in Albany Park

Friday, 22 January 2010 11:10 by Admin
January 22, 2010 5:35 AM An 85-year-old male pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side by a vehicle whose driver didn't have a license, Chi... [More]

Motorist killed by frieght train in downtown Wheaton identified

Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:34 by Admin
January 21, 2010 2:24 PM Wheaton police are investigating a fatal accident involving a 70-year-old man who drove his car around a lowered gate and was struck by a Union freight train Thursday ... [More]

4 hurt in South Side crash

Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:30 by Admin
January 21, 2010 2:36 PM Four people have been hospitalized, three in critical or serious condition, after they were involved in a crash this morning in the Prairie Shores&nb... [More]

4 Injured, 1 critically, in Dan Ryan rollover

Monday, 18 January 2010 16:32 by Admin
January 16, 2010 Caroline Kyungae Smith Staff Reporter Four people were injured -- one critically -- in a rollover accident on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side early Saturday. At 3... [More]

$48,000 Settlement for a City Worker

Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:06 by Admin
$48,100 Workers' Compensation settlement for a city worker who slipped and fell injuring his shoulder.

Mt. Prospect Women Dies due to Crash Injuries

Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:23 by Admin
An 81-year-old Mount Prospect woman died late Saturday night from injuries suffered in a car crash that took place more than a week earlier. Kathleen Polcaster was pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. Sat... [More]

Common Neck Injuries- Whiplash

Friday, 30 October 2009 14:26 by Admin
What is whiplash? Whiplash is condition caused by injury to the soft-tissue structures of the cervical spine, or neck region. Usually whiplash is a strain of the muscles or sprain of the ligaments th... [More]

Fatal car crash in Grand Crossing

Monday, 26 October 2009 11:21 by Admin
Woman dies in auto crash in Grand Crossing October 25, 2009 10:17 PM A 24-year-old woman was killed this morning in an auto crash in the Grand Crossing neighborhood after she lost control of her car ... [More]

Metra delays due to derailment

Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:12 by Admin
October 23, 2009 2:25 PM Commuters will still encounter delays, but Metra will reinstitute service on its Southwest and Heritage Lines this afternoon.Full service will resume on the Southwest Line wit... [More]

FHP finds bald tire seperated before deadly car crash

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:59 by Admin
Henry Pierson Curtis- Sentinel Staff Writer A 32nd-of-an-inch film of tread was all that remained on a bald tire that separated moments before an SUV carrying 10 children overturned and crashed Satur... [More]

Man dies after crashing into South Side viaduct

Friday, 16 October 2009 16:26 by Admin
Man dies after crashing into South Side viaductOctober 16, 2009 7:39 AM A 36-year-old man died after his Lincoln Towncar crashed into a viaduct this morning on Chicago's Southwest Side, police said.At... [More]

Two hospitalized after five-car crash on Route 53

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 14:48 by Admin
By Steve Zalusky | Daily Herald StaffA five-car crash on Route 53, just south of the Woodfield Shopping Center, sent two people to the hospital Sunday afternoon.Two people were taken to Alexian Brothe... [More]

2 hurt in Northwest Side porch collapse

Monday, 12 October 2009 11:52 by Admin
October 11, 2009 10:04 PM Two people were being treated for injuries after a porch collapse on the Northwest Side this evening, police said. A man and a woman were injured when part of a rear porch a... [More]

Two injured in Bus Accident

Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:56 by Admin
Updated: Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009, 4:15 AM CDTPublished : Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009, 4:15 AM CDTUniversity Park, Illinois - Two women were hurt Tuesday afternoon in a three-vehicle crash involving a Pace b... [More]

1 killed, 1 hurt in traffic crash in McHenry County

Friday, 2 October 2009 14:18 by Admin
October 2, 2009 9:32 AM |A motorist was killed Thursday night when her vehicle collided with another in an unincorporated area between far north suburban Spring Grove and Fox Lake, the McHenry County ... [More]

Lake Shore Drive reopened after 9 hurt in crash

Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:24 by Admin
October 1, 2009 3:45 PM  | UPDATED STORYNine people were hurt, three critically, when four cars collided this afternoon on North Lake Shore Drive, just south of Chicago Avenue.The crash occurred ... [More]

Mystery plane crash in Indiana

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 16:23 by Admin
September 30, 2009 3:06 PM | UPDATED STORYINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- A small, single-engine plane crashed into an open field in eastern Indiana on Wednesday after the pilot became unresponsive and the plan... [More]

3 hurt in Mt. Prospect crash

Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:58 by Admin
September 23, 2009 7:01 PM   Staff Report Three motorists were hurt in a multi-vehicle traffic crash this afternoon in northwest suburban Mt. Prospect. The victims' injuries were not ... [More]