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It is at least the third fatality involving a train and a pedestrian in the Springfield area in 2023.
On Aug. 28, Cherry Sheppard died after she was struck by a train at the corner of Third and Scarritt streets south of downtown Springfield. Contact Patrick M. Keck: 312-549-9340, pkeck@gannett.com ...
Several cars of a freight train derailed and caught fire in Dupo, Illinois, on Tuesday, September 10, sending flames and black smoke into the sky.The crash happened near Vertex Chemical ...
The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) is the Illinois state government office that oversees local firefighting activities within Illinois. Local Illinois fire departments are autonomous, and the OSFM provides backup services to these local forces and coordinates their activities. The OSFM operates a public outreach arm to ...
The Illinois and Midland Railroad (reporting mark IMRR) is a railroad in the U.S. state of Illinois, serving Peoria, Springfield and Taylorville. Until 1996, when Genesee & Wyoming Inc. bought it, the company was named the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway (reporting mark CIM). [1] It was once a Class I railroad, specializing in the hauling ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Illinois. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2018 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 846 law enforcement agencies employing 48,240 sworn police officers, about 379 for each 100,000 residents.
Update, 4:45 p.m. Fire crews appeared to have stopped a fire late Wednesday from advancing farther as it burned near the railroad tracks on the 700 block of 30th Street in Springfield.
A 21-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed by a freight train in Grandview around 9 p.m. Saturday. Sgt. Andrew Henton of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office said the male pedestrian was hit ...