Posts tagged ‘naperville’
Local plane crash
October 7th, 2010 at 3:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Around noon yesterday, I got a text from my wife asking if I knew why helicopters were flying around near the Fox Valley Mall. A few minutes later, my business partner called to tell me she’d just driven past a plane crash south of the mall. The plane, she said, had crashed into the health…
Turnabout
August 16th, 2010 at 9:21 pm by Dr. Drang
Fair is fair. After writing a couple of posts about cars running into bicycles, I suppose it’s only right that I do one on a bicycle running into a car. The story comes from Sunday’s Naperville Sun and concerns Stephen Kupelian, who’s had trouble with cars before. On probation for trying to torch a Pontiac…
The ride to work
July 8th, 2010 at 5:10 pm by Dr. Drang
The weather for the past few days has been jumping around lot. Every day has been mostly hot and humid—the usual for July—punctuated by brief but heavy thunderstorms. This has played havoc with the kids’ sports schedules, but has been great for the bike path I take to work. Most of my ride to work…
Biking season is like deer season
May 4th, 2010 at 9:52 am by Dr. Drang
If you’re a bicyclist who rides in Naperville, you’ll be interested to know that the cost of attacking you with a car has just been set by a DuPage County judge: 21 days, to be served in three-day increments over seven weeks. And although the attacker has been forced to give up her gun owner’s…
Suburban blight
March 12th, 2010 at 10:48 pm by Dr. Drang
As I mentioned last week, I’ve started biking to work again after the winter layoff. This is the first year it’s been consistently warm enough1 to start bicycle commuting in March, and because the frost is still working its way out of the ground, I’ve been leery of taking my normal route on the crushed…
