Bus Routes Canceled Due to Police Investigation
The police investigation of a Brookside Glen fatality left many District 161 students stuck at school. Parents received calls from the district to pick up their children.
Several bus routes in Summit Hill School District 161 did not run Wednesday afternoon due to a police investigation of a reported fatality in the Brookside Glen neighborhood in Tinley Park. Eight buses with stops in Brookside Glen were canceled, said D161 Superintendent Barb Rains. Rains said the cancellations were made because police barricades would have interfered with the ability of the buses to make scheduled stops. Rains said the district didn’t want to risk dropping students in unfamiliar areas. “We wanted to keep our students as safe as possible,” said Rains. Students were kept at school until they could be picked up. All district parents received an email about the cancellations and parents whose children were affected also …
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TP Karen
8:26 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
I agree...I saw nothing on WGN or NBC5. Hate to be synical, but it does seems like that, Stephen. I understand that this was a domestic situation, which does not put the public in danger; however, it is still news and worthy of note on local news networks even tho it is those darn south suburbs again! more ›