Today will certainly be a day to remember in this area of Illinois. At around 8 a.m., a Fox Lake police lieutenant, Joe Gliniewicz, was killed by three culprits when he broke up what appears to be a robbery.
I didn't know anything about it when I left home here in nearby Spring Grove, right up US Highway 12 about four miles from Fox Lake. This was at about 12:40 p.m.. The first idea that I had that something was going on was when I took Sayton Drive by the Walgreens on US-12 and could not go east on Rollins Road as it was blocked by police. I then saw a helicopter, but with all the road construction going on in the area, figured that was yet another closed road.
But when I saw two WGN sound vans parked in the shopping plaza, I knew something was going on. I would have called Liz to tell her to check the news, but I was driving and it is against the law to talk on cell phones in Illinois.
I took Grand Avenue to Il-59 and then Wilson Road back to Rollins and into Round Lake Beach to see "Man From Uncle" at the Regal Theater on Rollins. When I got to the door of it, I saw a sign that they were temporarily closed due to a problem in the area. Since the attempted shooting last week, Regal Theaters have instituted a search policy for anyone bringing bags into their theaters. They are being very careful about the crazies.
A woman came out and told me that a cop had been shot in Fox Lake and that there were several suspects on the loose. The theater would be closed until this was over.
--RoadDog
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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