Published July 23, 2021 •
Updated on July 23, 2021 at 7:04 pm
Bystanders rescued a young boy who was discovered unresponsive in a pond Friday afternoon in the McHenry County village of Lake in the Hills, authorities said.
At approximately 12:35 p.m., police officers responded to a home in the 0-100 block of Point O Woods Court for the report of a missing child and then began searching for the boy. Our redesigned local news and weather app is live! Download it for iOS or Android and sign up for alerts.
Golfers at the nearby Boulder Ridge Country Club located the boy unresponsive in a pond, pulled him out and started performing CPR, according to a news release from police. The boy was transported to Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital and later flown to Lurie Children s Hospital of Chicago.
CHRISTOPHER BORRELLI
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO â Close your eyes and you can see the legacy of Raimund F. âRayâ Lotter, native son of Wurzburg, Germany, longtime adopted Santa of sorts to Chicago. You can see the strands of white lights strung throughout the Daley Center. You can see the market stalls. You can smell the potato pancakes and feel the bracing cold of December in Chicago.
Twenty-five years ago, Lotter organized the first Christkindlmarket in Chicago. He died Sunday at 83. Look inside your cabinets â if youâre from the Chicago area, thereâs a chance you own one, two, maybe 25 of those boot-shaped mugs that held hot mulled wine, a Christkindlmarket staple. Thank Ray Lotter. Each year, because of what he began in Chicago, the sweet steam from those mugs now floats along Dearborn Street each holiday season. Because of him, come winter, the Loop smells of grilled sausage.
Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital to host child car seat safety event May 4
Updated 4/29/2021 12:31 PM
Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital will offer a free child car seat safety check event from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, at the hospital, 10400 Haligus Road in Huntley.
Certified child passenger safety technicians will teach parents and caregivers the current laws and best practices to keep children, from newborn and up, safe in a vehicle.
It includes car seat safety inspection, installation observation, and demonstration in a vehicle or vehicle seat demonstration.
To register for this car seat safety check event, call (630) 933-4234. Social distancing guidelines will be in place, including the use of face masks for people over the age of 2.
Huntley police
A 54-year-old man died after his ultralight aircraft fell from several hundred feet Saturday in northwest suburban Huntley.
James McCulla Jr., of Huntley, was found in the downed ultralight about 6:55 p.m. in an open field behind the Culver’s restaurant at 12950 S. Rt. 47, Huntley police said.
Witnesses told police that they saw McCulla Jr. rise several hundred feet in the ultralight which police described as “essentially a parachute with a fan motor attached to the operator” then quickly bank, go into a slow spin and hit the ground, police said.
McCulla Jr. was taken to Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital, where he died, police said.