Lanes on the I-290 Eisenhower Expressway were closed and injuries were reported after a school bus carrying children and an SUV crashed into each other in the city’s Austin neighborhood, Illinois State Police confirmed.<\/p>\n
Troopers responded to the crash, in the eastbound lanes of I-290 near the Central Ave. exit, about 8:47 a.m., ISP said. <\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV was transported with injuries to a nearby hospital. <\/p>\n
According to ISP, the bus was transporting children, but ages were not immediately available. ISP added that no children from the bus were transported to hospitals with injuries. <\/p>\n
As of 9:50 a.m., two left lanes on I-290 at Central remained blocked, with TrafficNet reporting “solid traffic” backed up to Mannheim. <\/p>\n
The crash scene remained active as officials worked to investigate. <\/p>\n
No further details were provided. This story will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lanes on the I-290 Eisenhower Expressway were closed and injuries were reported after a school bus carrying children…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[359,960,8755,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-73001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-traffic","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114875003247656815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73001","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=73001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}