{"id":379130,"date":"2025-11-14T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/379130\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:41:11","slug":"dempster-street-closed-after-man-struck-and-killed-in-park-ridge-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/379130\/","title":{"rendered":"Dempster Street closed after man struck and killed in Park Ridge \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was struck and killed by a driver in suburban Park Ridge Friday morning, prompting a road closure in the area for several hours as authorities investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:09 a.m. Friday, a driver struck a 55-year-old man in the intersection of Dempster Street and Potter Road in Park Ridge. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Eastbound Dempster Street and northbound Potter Road were closed for an investigation, Park Ridge Police said in a post on social media after the crash. <\/p>\n<p>As of 1:50 p.m., eastbound Dempster Street remained closed for the police investigation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The MCAT Serious Traffic Accident Reconstruction Unit is assisting Park Ridge Police Department with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>No additional information was immediately available. <\/p>\n<p>Check back for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was struck and killed by a driver in suburban Park Ridge Friday morning, prompting a road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":379131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,14708],"class_list":{"0":"post-379130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-park-ridge"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115549994032016910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379130","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=379130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}