A Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood car accident resulted in the hospitalization of three Chicago police officers. The accident happened yesterday around 2:30 a.m. when the officers attempted to pull over a car at Anthony Avenue and 69th Street. CBS Chicago reports that the officers pulled the car over for having no working taillights. When the officers approached>> Read More

Crane accidents can result in some of the most serious construction site injuries. As with any large piece of equipment, crane accidents present both crushing and collapse injuries that can disable or kill a worker. One possible consequence of a crane injury is traumatic brain damage. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported on the recovery>> Read More

A Chicago woman was arrested after being found wandering in the cold after a fatal drunk driving car accident. The Chicago Tribune reports that the woman was involved in a fatal suburban accident that occurred at the border of Lyons and Summit. Authorities say that the 44-year-old woman drove her SUV off of the Harlem>> Read More

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration is investigating the tragic death of a worker in Decatur. The man reportedly fell from a collapsing scaffold while cleaning the inside of a tank at the Archer Daniels Midland Company plant, which is a corn sweetening facility. Rescuers were sent to the plant at about 2:30 p.m., and>> Read More

Triumph Motorcycles America, LTD is recalling some of its motorcycles due to a potential product defect. The company says that the wheels in two of its motorcycles were assembled using bearings of an unknown quality. Wheel bearings of a substandard quality could fail prematurely and cause a motorcyclist to be severely injured in a traffic>> Read More

A recent report in Forbes Magazine has renewed the debate regarding medical malpractice reform in the United States. The amount of time that a physician spends with open malpractice claims varies dramatically between specialties according to researchers. Doctors in Illinois and around the country face a medical malpractice lawsuit about every 7 years. Neurosurgeons spend>> Read More

Three people died on Tuesday in a Southwest Side Chicago car accident. Authorities say that the crash happened around 8:30 p.m. by the intersection of West 31st Street and South Western Avenue. The victims were ages 40, 46 and 57 and all died at Mount Sinai Hospital. Photos of the car accident show a red>> Read More

As of Feb. 2, a 35-year-old man from OFallon was still being treated after a serious electrical accident that happened on Jan. 23. He was working in Maryville at the time of the accident, and his condition remains critical. An electrical wire reportedly fell on the mans vehicle while he was working at an intersection>> Read More

Officials are blaming a recent Park Ridge school bus accident on an elderly bus driver’s medical condition. The Chicago Tribune reports that a 77-year-old Wheeling woman was driving the 71-passenger bus on Oakton Street Tuesday afternoon when she lost control and left a trail of destruction over a mile long. The incident sent the bus>> Read More

A Springfield, Ill., pizzeria employee recently received workers compensation benefits for a shooting injury that he sustained at work. An arbitrator from the Industrial Commission of Illinois found that the pizzeria employee was entitled to workers compensation benefits because he suffered his gunshot injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment at>> Read More

Authorities are moving forward with criminal charges against a Lohan Square man who fled a deadly West Side car accident last November. The 24-year-old man allegedly ran through a red light at Central Park and Division Avenues around 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 24, hitting a car containing two brothers. The driver of the second car>> Read More

A Lincoln Park Apple store was severely damaged on Sunday when a car crashed through the store’s windows shortly before close. Authorities responded to the Apple computer store on 801 W. North Ave. after reports that an elderly driver crashed a town car through the store’s broad glass storefront. Several photos of the scene show>> Read More