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UNIVERSITY PARK, IL – One person was killed in a train accident while driving an SUV through a railway crossing in University Park, IL about 9:42 p.m. Friday evening, April 16, 2010. The fatal train accident happened at the railway crossing just east of the intersection at Stuenkel Rd and Governors Hwy.

Railroad workers from the Canadian National Railway check the signals at the Stuenkel Road crossing Monday following Friday's fatal crash. Photo credit: Joseph P. Meier / SouthtownStar

University Park is in the northern part of Illinois about 40 miles south of Chicago, about 159 miles northeast of Peoria, 187 miles northeast of Springfield, 151 miles northeast of Decatur and about 249 miles northeast of Mount Vernon. ... Read More