Extra Extra: Driver Traveled Five Miles Wrong Way On Stevenson
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Feb 4, 2012 12:00AM
- A drunk driver sped five miles in the wrong direction on the Stevenson Expressway before crashing head-on with a car on a ramp to Lake Shore Drive. Both drivers were hospitalized with serious injuries. [Tribune]
- When City Clerk Susana Mendoza met with then-mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, she gave him a bottle of Midol. Well played. [Illinois Issues]
- A prisoner transport van broke down on the Dan Ryan today. Wait, we've seen this movie. Doesn't Nic Cage crash the plane in Vegas or something? [ABC7]
- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad wants state elected officials to pay for their healthcare coverage. [Radio Iowa]
- A Montana man led police on a high-speed chase because he "just always wanted to do that." [Montana Standard]