{"id":770996,"date":"2026-05-03T19:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/770996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:15:25","slug":"body-found-near-chicago-executive-airport-in-79-palatine-frontage-road-area-in-wheeling-illinois-after-possible-car-crash-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/770996\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found near Chicago Executive Airport in 79 Palatine Frontage Road area in Wheeling, Illinois after possible car crash: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WHEELING, Ill. (WLS) &#8212; North suburban police believe a man found dead near the Chicago Executive Airport viewing area on Sunday morning may have been killed in a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prospect Heights police said its officers responded to the area of 79 Palatine Frontage Road in Wheeling just after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There, officers found a man lying on the ground along the fence. Police said the man, who was unconscious and cold to the touch, was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A preliminary investigation indicates that the man may have been hit by a vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When officers arrived on the scene, there were no witnesses or vehicles that appeared to be connected to the possible crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">East Palatine Frontage Road at Milwaukee Avenue is closed as police investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No one is in custody.  The Prospect Heights Police Department asked anyone with information to call them at 847-398-5511.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities did not immediately provide further information.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEELING, Ill. (WLS) &#8212; North suburban police believe a man found dead near the Chicago Executive Airport viewing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[316167,8046,960,316159,5386,1818,83279,14709,316161,316160,316162,316166,316164,316163,316165],"class_list":{"0":"post-770996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-316167","9":"tag-car-crash","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-executive-airport","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-pedestrian-hit-by-car","15":"tag-prospect-heights","16":"tag-prospect-heights-il","17":"tag-prospect-heights-illinois","18":"tag-prospect-heights-news","19":"tag-wheeling-crash","20":"tag-wheeling-il","21":"tag-wheeling-illinois","22":"tag-wheeling-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116512248755661034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770996","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=770996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}