{"id":253749,"date":"2025-09-25T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253749\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:06:14","slug":"police-investigating-child-luring-incident-in-highland-park-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253749\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating child luring incident in Highland Park, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a child luring incident in north suburban Highland Park, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An elementary school student was approached by a man driving a white box truck after being dropped off at the bus stop near Ridge Road and Devonshire Court around 2:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The student told police the truck driver rolled down his window and said, &#8220;Hey kid, get in the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said the student ran home and is safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who police said had a long black beard, was driving a truck with rust near the windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or security camera footage from the area around the time is asked to contact the Highland Park Police Department&#8217;s Investigations Division at 847-432-7730.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/elyssa-kaufman\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elyssa  Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the station&#8217;s social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live Police are investigating a child luring incident in north suburban Highland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,13381,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-253749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-highland-park","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115265325544631458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}