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The Hinsdale Police Department issued more than 125 citations during the April distracted driving enforcement period. Police issued 115 hands-free law citations, 10 speeding citations, one child car seat citation and one other citation for a Illinois Vehicle Code violation. They also made one traffic arrest. “We strongly enforce distracted driving laws for one reason — to save lives,” said Deputy Chief Thomas Lillie. “Choose to drive distracted, and you’ll have a phone in one hand and a ticket in the other.” The Hinsdale Po...
Hinsdale detectives Tuesday seized a vehicle believed to have been used in last week’s burglaries of luxury dealerships in Hinsdale and recovered two firearms that were modified to shoot in fully automatic mode with extended clip magazines. The detectives were executing a search warrant in Cook County as part of an ongoing investigation into the May 17 burglaries at Continental Motor Sports and Land Rover/Jaguar of Hinsdale, both on Ogden Avenue. Police arrested a 24-year-old and an armed juvenile and hope to apprehend two a...
Break-ins at two luxury Hinsdale car dealerships early Monday morning could have ended in tragedy, Police Chief Brian King said. Police responded to an activated alarm at Continental Motor Sports, 420 E. Ogden Ave., shortly after 2:20 a.m. and pinned the suspects' vehicle against the building with two squad cars. Three suspects then exited the vehicle and fled on foot. "The third is a 16-year-old juvenile that is holding the hand gun with a 30-round extended magazine clip," Ki...
With more than 100 years of commanding classrooms combined, retiring Hinsdale Central High School teachers Julie Baker, Chris Billie, Steve Gross and Pat Richards are well-known and well-loved members of the Red Devil community. In observance of Teacher Appreciation Week, the four offer their reflections on spending a career devoted to students. Julie Baker Julie Baker became a chemistry teacher at Central 21 years ago as a second career after working as a research assistant....
What will summer in Hinsdale look like? It's hard to say. "It's been challenging because we've been planning everything with three scenarios," said Heather Bereckis, superintendent of parks and recreation for the village. The region is currently under Phase 4 restrictions, but Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday the state is "making progress" in its coronavirus metrics and could enter the bridge phase of its reopening plan soon - maybe within a week. "Every single event, every...
Why is that dinosaur in your front lawn? Whether it's referred to as the big purple dinosaur, Madame Butterfly or the beastie, the whimsical sculpture that adorns the front lawn of Beth Greifenkamp's Hinsdale home is known to all who have the pleasure of passing by. "It's literally a landmark," said Greifenkamp, who refers to the winged creature as "the beastie." Greifenkamp had long admired the work of Milwaukee artist Dennis Pearson when he teamed up with the Milwaukee...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports April 6. Man arrested for DUI, battery Charles C. Heimke, 24, 914 S. County Line Road, Hinsdale, was arrested for aggravated battery to a police officer; resisting, obstructing or disarming an officer; driving under the influence of alcohol, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, other traffic offenses and leaving the scene of a property damage accident at 2:21 a.m. April 4 at South County Line Road and East 57th Street. Police found the suspect’s vehicle at his residence a...
The Hinsdale Police Department made an arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, one for driving with a suspended license, one for felony possession of cannabis (101-499 grams), and one for possession of cannabis by driver during the St. Patrick’s Day enforcement period, according to a department press release. “By keeping impaired drivers off the roads and ensuring that motorists and passengers are buckled up, we’re able to help make the roads a safer place for everyone,” said Deputy Chief Thomas Lillie. Police...
The Hinsdale Police Department is scheduled for a virtual on-site assessment the week of April 5 as part of a nationally recognized program to achieve accreditation by verifying it meets strict professional standards. Administered by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc., the program requires agencies to comply with state-of-the-art standards and performs an examination of all aspects of the department’s policy and procedures, administration, operations, support services and adherence to the CALEA...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports Feb. 17. Motorist flees crash scene Bayanmunkh Darinchuluun, 42, 71 W. 61st St., Westmont, was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident at 12:25 a.m. Feb. 9 at 55th Street and Route 83 after police were dispatched to a report of a vehicle that crashed into the guard rail. The suspect fled the scene and left the vehicle behind; he later turned himself in at the police station and was charged and released to appear in court....
What a service to the community! As vice president of the DuPage County Board of Health, I have come to appreciate the importance of public-private partnerships for the good of the whole community. It is praiseworthy that Hinsdale High School District 86 has developed a partnership with Osco in order to vaccinate teachers and older residents. The DuPage County Health Department has been seeking additional vaccination sites to help increase the rate of vaccination delivery, and District 86 became one of the health...
Hinsdale police have announced the arrests of two offenders for impaired driving during the winter holiday enforcement campaign. Additional citations were for one seat belt, 17 speed and nine other Illinois Vehicle Code violations. Hinsdale police partnered with the Illinois Department of Transportation and law enforcement throughout the staten. From Dec. 18 to Jan. 4, Hinsdale police ramped up usual enforcement, adding six additional patrol details....
Hinsdale police have released the results of the Thanksgiving enforcement initiative from Nov. 20-30. Police made three impaired driving arrests during the effort. They also made one felony arrest, in which a motorist was charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding, unlawful use of a weapon by a convicted felon, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and driving under the influence of alcohol. A loaded semi-automatic firearm was recovered from a motorist’s vehicle. Police issued four citations to drivers with a suspended or r...
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Hinsdale Police Chief Brian King announced Tuesday that bond has been set for a Chicago man accused of illegally possessing a fully loaded firearm and fleeing from police stemming from an incident early Monday. James Ruffin, 27, of the 5500 block of W. Iowa St., has been charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, aggravated fleeing and eluding and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, all felony counts. He was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of driving u...
The pandemic may have disrupted a lot of our regular routines, but it did not diminish Hinsdaleans’ commitment for giving back. We’ve documented that bounty of benevolence in our Good News section over the past year, and, as we approach Thanksgiving, wanted to highlight a few of them as an expression of gratitude for those gifts: • The 2020 Pillars Ball raised $242,000 for Pillars Community Health to support medical, dental, mental health and substance use disorder services along with domestic and sexual violence services to...
Jennifer Reenan was volunteering in the art room at Avery Coonley School on April 11, 2018. Her phone was off. Meanwhile, workers at her home at 329 E. Sixth St. were in the final stages of replacing the roof on the 119-year-old home. They were using a blowtorch to seal the synthetic shingles on the porte cochere when the material caught fire. "When I came out (of school), I turned my phone on and I had all these text messages," Reenan said. She and her youngest son, Declan,...
With one of the busiest travel times of the year just around the corner, the Hinsdale Police Department is reminding motorists to buckle up and drive sober to ensure that everyone gets to the Thanksgiving table safely. “On regular days and holidays alike, law enforcement too often see the results of driving impaired and not wearing a seat belt,” said Deputy Chief Thomas Lillie. “They are both tragic and preventable. “Whether you’re driving cross-country or across the street, please remember to wear your seat belt and make...
Hinsdale police earned praise at Tuesday night’s village board meeting for preventing a suicidal man from jumping off the Ogden Avenue bridge over Interstate 294 on Friday, Oct. 30. “They did just an exemplary job of taking control of the situation and not using any lethal force, if you will, to contain someone who was wanting to do himself harm,” village manager Kathleen Gargano told trustees. “We don’t realize our police officers are trained to negotiate with these individuals and take control of these situations because t...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports Oct. 28 and Nov. 3. Controlled substance arrest Alexandria J. Miller, 26, 374 Twilight Drive, No. 4, Morris, was arrested on a felony count of possession of a controlled substance, obstructing identification, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving without a registration light and driving with a suspended license at 2:43 a.m. Oct. 29 at 55th Street and County Line Road. Miller gave a false name and birth date and was in possession of a white powdery substance that field...
A federal jury has convicted two men on robbery and weapons offenses for stealing expensive watches and jewelry at gunpoint from Razny Jewelers in Hinsdale. After a six-day trial in federal court in Chicago, Tobias Diggs, 26, of Chicago, and Joshua McClellan, 31, of Oak Lawn, were convicted Oct. 22 of all counts against them, including conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, transportation of stolen goods, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the...
It’s hard to imagine 2020 could get any scarier than it already is. But the never-ending pandemic will not deter us from our annual Halloween tradition of imagining a Hinsdale that is significantly more frightening than the one we know and love. So, with Oct. 31 just two days away, we share our visions of events we would be scared to see in town. • the U.S. Department of Education discontinues the National Blue Ribbon School program before all nine schools in Community Consolidated District 181 are able to earn the honor (th...
What percentage of the day are you with people of your own gender/race/class/age/belief system? What are the last five books you read or programs you watched? When traveling through different communities, do you notice different housing patterns or density? Do those differences seem to have any correlation to race or class? These are a few of the perspective-stirring questions posed by Hinsdale Central's Students Organized for Anti-Racism (SOAR) club as part of their 14-day...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports Oct. 13. Arrest for hitting nurse Catherine Mary Kluser, 27, 112 Ascot Lane, No. 3011, Willowbrook was arrested for aggravated battery for grabbing and punching a nurse at 6:20 p.m. Oct. 6 at Amita Hinsdale Hospital, 120 N. Oak St. She was charged and taken to DuPage County Jail. DUI arrest Bruce W. Airhart, 63, 400 74th St., No. 201, Downers Grove, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a blood-alcohol content higher than .08, failing to signal...
At 2:50 a.m. Tuesday, a Hinsdale police officer on patrol observed two suspicious vehicles on Woodland Avenue at County Line Road. Both vehicles fled at a high rate of speed northbound on County Line and then eastbound on 47th Street. One of the vehicles, a white Land Rover Discovery, was stolen from a garage in the 900 block of Cleveland just prior to the encounter with the squad car. In the last few days there has been an increase in overnight auto thefts in the Chicago metropolitan area. The Hinsdale Police Department...
The Hinsdale Police Department made one arrest for impaired driving during the recent Labor Day enforcement campaign to increase safety on Illinois roads. Police also issued 45 citations for speeding violations, three for driving with a suspended license, one for operating an uninsured motor vehicle violation, one for possession of cannabis and nine for other violations to the Illinois Vehicle Code. “As traffic safety partners, we do our best to make sure all drivers and other road users are safe,” Deputy Chief Thomas Lil...
