Three young children were hospitalized after being hit by a car in an Oak Park crosswalk last month.
The motorist struck the children while they were in a crosswalk walking northbound on Lombard Avenue on Aug. 25. The driver was traveling eastbound on South Boulevard, according to village officials.
The three children were all “approximately” between the ages of seven and nine years old and all three were transported to Loyola University Medical Center for their injuries. One child was released from the hospital later that day, while the other two were held overnight before being released from hospital care, according to village officials.
The driver was cited for the incident, according to Oak Park police.
Domestic Violence arrests
Oak Park police arrested several people suspected of domestic violence offenses over the last week.
At 9:30 a.m. Sept. 4, police arrested a 39-year-old woman in the 100 block of Austin Boulevard on domestic battery charges. An Oak Park resident and a Chicago resident were victims in the incident, according to police.
Shortly after 5 p.m. Sept. 4 police arrested a 55-year-old man in the 8300 block of Roosevelt Road on charges of domestic battery. He was arrested in connection with an alleged attack on an Oak Park resident that occurred on Jan. 29, according to police.
Just before 10:20 a.m. Sept. 3, Oak Park police also arrested a man on domestic battery charges connected to a Jan. 10 incident, according to police.
Assault and property damage
Oak Park police are investigating an incident in which a thwarted theft reportedly turned violent.
On the afternoon of Sept. 3, a Berwyn resident reportedly saw a man breaking the lock securing his Eletric scooter with a rock and a pair of plyers. When the victim confronted the man, he reportedly hit him with the broken lock before fleeing on foot, according to police.
The incident occurred in the 1000 block of Lake Street, with the man last seen running west toward Harlem Avenue, according to police.
These items were obtained from Oak Park’s Police Department reports dated Sept. 2- Sept. 9 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.