PEDRO COUNTY RESULT County: Chicago — Cook County, IL; DuPage County, IL; Lake County, IL; McHenry County, IL; Kane County, IL; Will County, IL; Kendall County, IL; Lake County, IN; Porter County, IN Generated At: 2026-10-16 06:24:00 Window Start: 2026-10-15 06:00:00 Window End: 2026-10-16 06:00:00 Coverage Level: moderate Search Summary: Mandatory county-by-county broad and direct searches, official/local source review, five incident-category passes, blocked-source recovery, and a second recovery pass were completed. Validated incident count: 2. The candidate ledger retained 2 records after deduplication and timing review. Coverage Notes: All assigned counties were queried individually. Official/public-safety, local-news, regional-news, traffic/disruption, and emergency-management source families were checked. Publication-window updates were retained only where the update was material and the earlier occurrence date is explicit. Known Gaps: - Some agency social pages and dynamic incident logs were not fully readable; alternate official or established local sources were used where available. - A zero-hit county result does not establish that no incident occurred. Locations Checked: - Cook County, IL - DuPage County, IL - Lake County, IL - McHenry County, IL - Kane County, IL - Will County, IL - Kendall County, IL - Lake County, IN - Porter County, IN Alias Coverage: - Alias: Cook, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 0 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: DuPage, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 0 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: Lake, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 1 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: McHenry, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 1 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: Kane, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 0 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: Will, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 0 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: Kendall, IL | Checked: yes | Hits: 0 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: Lake, IN | Checked: yes | Hits: 1 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed - Alias: Porter, IN | Checked: yes | Hits: 0 | Sources: official/public safety; local news; regional news | Notes: broad, direct, and category-pass queries reviewed Source Family Coverage: - Source Family: official/public safety | Checked: yes | Notes: agency and prosecutor releases reviewed where indexed - Source Family: local news | Checked: yes | Notes: market and county outlets reviewed - Source Family: regional news | Checked: yes | Notes: alternate validation and blocked-source recovery - Source Family: traffic/disruption | Checked: yes | Notes: major crashes and closures reviewed - Source Family: government/emergency alert | Checked: yes | Notes: official emergency and county pages reviewed INCIDENT Title: Driver ejected and killed in high-speed crash near McHenry Incident Type: Fatal vehicle crash Location: West Dowell Road and West Neville Road, unincorporated McHenry, Illinois Country: United States State: IL County: Lake County City: McHenry Occurred At: 2026-10-15 01:35:00 Occurrence Time Basis: exact source statement Published At: 2026-10-15 13:39:00 Latitude: None Longitude: None Incident Summary: A 23-year-old driver died after an Audi left the road, struck trees, split apart, and ejected him; the sheriff said a deputy had clocked the car at 74 mph in a 35 mph zone. Preparedness Relevance: Fatal high-speed crash requiring fire, EMS, law-enforcement, coroner, and technical crash investigation response. Layer: Transportation Event Status: confirmed Category: Fatal crash Retrieval Matches: fatal crash; ejected; high speed Context Signals: sheriff response; coroner; fire district Exclusion Terms Triggered: None Classification Tags: fatality; roadway; emergency response Priority: high Severity: high Confidence Score: 0.91 Verification Status: source-linked Source Role: local news Source Title: Driver ejected and killed after Audi clocked going over double the speed limit crashes into trees, splits apart near McHenry Source URL: https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/10/15/driver-ejected-and-killed-after-audi-clocked-going-over-double-the-speed-limit-crashes-into-trees-splits-apart-near-mchenry/ Source Notes: Local public-safety reporting attributes facts to Lake County Sheriff, fire district, and coroner. Three structured coordinate queries did not yield a defensible scene coordinate. END INCIDENT INCIDENT Title: Pickup crashes into Fox River; driver later arrested Incident Type: Vehicle into water / leaving scene Location: 700 block of South Riverside Drive at the Fox River, McHenry, Illinois Country: United States State: IL County: McHenry County City: McHenry Occurred At: 2026-10-11 20:56:00 Occurrence Time Basis: exact source statement Published At: 2026-10-15 17:15:00 Latitude: None Longitude: None Incident Summary: Firefighter-paramedics in swift-water gear searched a submerged pickup after it breached a guardrail; no occupant was found, and police later arrested the identified owner for leaving the scene. Preparedness Relevance: Vehicle-in-water response illustrates rescue-resource activation and post-incident law-enforcement follow-up. Layer: Public Safety Event Status: resolved Category: Vehicle into water Retrieval Matches: swift water rescue; crash; arrest Context Signals: firefighter-paramedics; Fox River; police investigation Exclusion Terms Triggered: None Classification Tags: water rescue; vehicle crash; arrest Priority: medium Severity: medium Confidence Score: 0.88 Verification Status: source-linked Source Role: local news Source Title: Texas man accused of crashing pickup truck through guardrail into Fox River, fleeing scene in McHenry Source URL: https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/10/15/texas-man-accused-of-crashing-pickup-truck-through-guardrail-into-fox-river-fleeing-scene-in-mchenry/ Source Notes: Occurrence predates the window; the arrest and detailed public-safety account were first published in-window. Three structured coordinate queries did not yield a defensible scene coordinate. END INCIDENT Unvalidated Leads: - None Rejected Candidates: - Title: Out-of-window and unchanged indexed events | Source Title: Multiple county search results | Source URL: https://www.google.com/ | Reason: occurrence and publication outside the frozen window or duplicate of prior review Severity Counts: High: 1 Medium: 1 Low: 0 Source Gap Notes: - Coordinate recovery used structured address/intersection, map, and geocode query variants; None was preserved where no defensible point was returned. Recommended Follow-Up: - Recheck late-arriving official releases and unresolved charging or identification updates in the next run. END COUNTY RESULT