SUV Crashes into Palos Heights Rec Building
The rec center will stay open, according to a report.
A Lemont man was hospitalized as a precaution Monday morning after his SUV smashed through the Palos Heights Recreation Department building on 127th Street.
The recreation center will stay open despite the damage, Sun-Times Media reports.
Police and firefighters were on scene at about 9 a.m. The SUV when it crashed through a brick wall near one corner of the building.
No one was inside the room when the accident happened.
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Brett Rosynek
11:42 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
is it me or does this happen a lot in Palos Heights?
Elvis
2:20 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
It happens a crazy amount of time in Palos! I was just commenting about that this summer.
Nick Swedberg
10:14 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
I count this one and St. Al's sign. Was there another?
DHD
8:58 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Nick, Baumanns Bakery and Breadsmith each had a old person in a car hit their storefronts in the past year.
Billable Hours
2:21 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Oh no....not our precious, state of the art recreation center!!!! If we lost that irreplaceable anchor of our town I don't know what we'd do!!! Please tell me the repairs won't take too long so the community can go back to utilizing its awesomeness!!! Thank you Palos Heights elected officials for spoiling us with such a facility. If the structural damage is too much can you please consider putting another bank there???
gutsygirl37
6:25 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Tee Hee!
Glad no one was hurt though
Chronicles of Bob
12:05 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Are you being sarcastic? I don't think that facility is good at all. Plus we have all this surplus of $$ the alderman brag about... yet have basketball's that don't bounce a.d tennis courts fixed with glue!
Oh wait... you're kidding right???
Stephanie Ebert
3:36 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Thank God nobody got hurt.
colleen plucinski
4:50 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Just curious who was driving the vehicle?
DHD
8:16 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Another old fart crashes in Palos.
TheUNowen
9:06 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Or since the licenses for illegal trash law just took effect I'd say it was one of them, get ready, since that law passed theres gonna be a lot more like this!
Chronicles of Bob
12:02 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Idiot.
Laura Wagner
9:30 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
My kid goes to the rec center all the time!!! Scary!!!! Who was driving the car??? Wth happened!!!!!!
Brett Rosynek
9:41 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Nick, there were several in Indian Trails stores, Lumes, I believe Baumann's bakeys or the store next to it. Probably more I just can't remember. It would be an interesting research article for the Patch.
Nick Swedberg
12:09 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Thanks, Brett. Several of the incidents happened before I came to Palos. A research article would definitely be interesting. I'll get working on it.
Chronicles of Bob
12:19 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Nick, i need help with my thesis paper... can you get working on that as well?
In advance... thanks.
Matthew Howe
10:54 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Hallmark/ACE Hardware
Connor Murphy
4:28 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
lol
Brett Rosynek
6:27 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
There was also Ben Franklins, the Regional building, and Radio Shack too. Somehow, I think there are more
Palos Rez
9:35 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Aurelio's was crashed into. Plus wasn't one of the stores near running for kicks hit a few years back? Maybe the UPS store?
Brett Rosynek
9:38 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Breadsmith. This is addicting.
John
2:10 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Must be something in the water.
Elvis
1:31 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
My theory is that since there are so many medical buildings in Palos Heights, it draws the elderly and sick to our hood. And while they are here seeking medical care, they run errands and wreak havoc upon the poor unsuspecting buildings. All jokes aside, there does actually seem to be a higher than normal "car crashing into buildings" around here. I can think of at least 10 since we moved here 7 years ago. I lived in the city for 15years before that do not ever remember hearing about stuff like this on such a frequent level.
Jooj
8:04 am on Friday, January 18, 2013
Let me add, Fitsimmons medical supply and just to stick up for the seniors a little bit, the person who hit Aurelios was a young girl, not illegal or old!
Chronicles of Bob
1:48 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
The new jewel.