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Adrienne Wanek wants a low mileage 2017 Lexus sedan that offers the same reliability as the model she’s had for 20 years.
But after chatting with her trusted used car dealer, she’s come to the same depressing conclusion many people in the Chicago area have landed upon in the last several months: There’s never been a more difficult time to buy a used car.
“I’m thankful the dealer I’m working with was just honest about it and told me, ‘This is the absolute worst time to be shopping for a used car,’” she said.
Surgeries for driver attacked during carjacking at Des Plaines auto dealership A frame from surveillance video of a Feb. 25 carjacking at Jidd Motors in Des Plaines shows two men about to take two vehicles up front while another runs to take another car off a trailer, with the fourth man in a getaway vehicle near the road and the delivery driver crawling after he was attacked by the men. Courtesy of Jidd Motors
Updated 2/26/2021 8:29 PM
It s one surgery down and one to go for the 36-year-old driver who was badly beaten Thursday during a carjacking at a luxury automobile dealership in Des Plaines.