Snow snarls Park Forest rush hour on Steger Road
Park Forest police report 12 accidents during a snowy morning. Seven crashes occurred at the Steger Road and Western Avenue intersection between 7:48 and 8:02 a.m., with no injuries. A separate theft saw two cardboard boxes stolen from an unlocked garage, containing five Christmas ornaments and a 20-piece electric train set, valued around $150, reported from Nauvoo Street.
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Steger Road
Western Avenue
Park Forest
Steger- Western
Nauvoo Street
Matteson ex-employee tied to theft at Kay Bee Toys
A former Kay Bee Toys worker at Lincoln Mall Matteson is suspected of stealing 2278 from the store. The suspect, who quit, was to deposit the money at a bank near the end of October but the deposit was never made. A daytime burglary on Central Avenue Matteson yielded a stereo and other items.
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Kay Bee Toys
Lincoln Mall
Matteson
Central Avenue
Stolen Leather Coats At Heartland Health Care Homewood
Two Heartland Health Care employees reported leather coats stolen from the employee lounge at 940 Maple Road Homewood. The Hazel Crest and Harvey women left their coats on a rack between 9 10 and 11 15 p m. The coats were valued at 220 dollars each.
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Heartland Health Care
Maple Road
Homewood
Hazel Crest
Harvey
U turn stops man over suspended license cannabis found
A Chicago man, Jerry McGruder, 20, was stopped after attempting a northbound U turn on Halsted Street. Police found a suspended license and cannabis in his possession, charging him with cannabis possession driving on a suspended license and improper lane usage. In Olympia Fields, a 39-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint after exiting a Pace bus at Route 30 and Brookwood Drive, with $15 taken. a suspect described as a 15 to 20 year old Black male in a Saints jacket fled toward Park Forest. Police appeal for tips to the Olympia Fields Police Department.
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Halsted Street
Homewood
Jerry McGruder
McGruder
Olympia Fields
Brookwood Drive
Park Forest
Chicago Heights
Hazel Crest Man Killed as Semi Crashes on I-94
A Hazel Crest man, Thomas Dawkins, 58, died when a semi trailer veered into a wall on southbound I-94 near 47th Street in Chicago. The trailer separated from its tractor, crossed the wall, and fell onto Dawkins’s car, trapping him for hours before he was pronounced dead at Chicago Osteopathic Hospital. Raymond Taylor, 26, the trailer driver, was ticketed for improper lane usage. Weather was not a factor.
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47Th Street
Thomas Dawkins
Raymond Taylor
Dawkins
Chicago Osteopathic Hospital
Man electrocuted while unloading poles near Heights
Richard Jachim aged 41 was killed when a 15 foot pole being loaded onto a truck struck power lines at 27th and East End in unincorporated Bloom Township. He died at St James Hospital at 10 56 a m. Cook County police called the incident an accident and closed the investigation. Jachim worked for Gateway Outdoor Advertising and was removing two advertising signs with coworkers.
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Chicago
East End
Bloom Township
Richard Jachim
Jachim
St. James Hospital
Cook County
Penny Mateck
Mateck
Gateway Outdoor Advertising
Dolton Arrest Man on Drug Charges
Chicago man Richard Payton Jr. was charged in Dolton with possession of cannabis after police pulled him over for a traffic violation and allegedly found two grams of marijuana. He resides at 203 W. 112th Place.
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Chicago
Dolton
Richard Payton Jr
W. 112Th Place
Payton
Break-in at residence leads to theft report
Police said a home was forcibly entered and ransacked after a resident left at 9:30 a.m. and returned at 3:45 p.m. Monday. Items taken included a system VCR telephone answering machine remote control for a toy car jewelry athletic shoes and cassette tapes.
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