A stretch of the Eisenhower Expressway near Westchester was closed for nearly nine hours Thursday after an unspecified emergency that left at least one person dead, but authorities remained tight-lipped about the circumstances.<\/p>\n
Just after 10 a.m., Illinois state troopers came onto an \u201cactive incident\u201d on the westbound Interstate 290 between Mannheim Road and the Tri-State Tollway (Interstate 294), state police said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n
Authorities shut down all lanes of the expressway as multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, assisted on the scene.<\/p>\n
In separate statements, the ATF and FBI confirmed the agencies had actively worked on the investigation together with the support of state and local partners. State police in a statement said it was supporting an \u201cactive federal investigation into the incident that occurred this morning.\u201d State police said there was no known threat to public safety.<\/p>\n
The Cook County medical examiner\u2019s office confirmed the death of a male of unknown age on the roadway just west of 25th Avenue in Hillside, but provided no other details. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n
The expressway was finally reopened just before 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Tribune\u2019s Tess Kenny contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stretch of the Eisenhower Expressway near Westchester was closed for nearly nine hours Thursday after an unspecified…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":845827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[126037,960,5295,56434,12783,136300,5386,1818,54665],"class_list":["post-845826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-atf","tag-chicago","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-eisenhower-expressway","tag-fbi","tag-hillside","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-westchester"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116696832101092842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845826","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=845826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}