U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly handed down a sentence of 20 years in prison Friday to Thomas Zajac, 70, a former resident of Oakbrook Terrace.On Sept. 1, 2006, Zajac placed a pipe bomb in a garbage can outside the Metra BNSF railway station in Hinsdale; the bomb detonated early that morning injuring a station […]
PALATINE, Ill. – The Barrington community is mourning the loss of a high school student who was fatally struck by a Metra train while walking to school on Thursday morning. The student has been identified by the Lake County Coroner’s Office as 17-year-old Marin Lacson, of Barrington. She was a junior at Barrington High School, […]
After they missed their train from Glen Ellyn to Chicago early Friday morning, migrants wrapped themselves in thin white blankets on the concrete platform. They were left at the Metra station after a ride in a large charter bus from El Paso, Texas, and given train tickets by their bus driver. They ran toward a […]
Two busloads of migrants have been dropped off at Naperville’s downtown Metra station since last Thursday, according to city spokeswoman Linda LaCloche. LaCloche could not say how many migrants arrived in the city or where the buses traveled from but said passengers boarded a Metra train for downtown Chicago right after arriving in Naperville. “We […]
Two busloads of migrants have been dropped off at Naperville’s downtown Metra station since last Thursday, according to city spokeswoman Linda LaCloche. LaCloche could not say how many migrants arrived in the city or where the buses traveled from but said passengers boarded a Metra train for downtown Chicago right after arriving in Naperville. “We […]