PEDRO COUNTY RESULT
Market: Chicago
Slug: chicago
Scheduled Window Start: 2026-10-16T11:00:00Z
Scheduled Window End: 2026-10-17T11:00:00Z
Market Timezone: America/Chicago
Local Window: [2026-10-16T06:00:00-05:00, 2026-10-17T06:00:00-05:00)
Elapsed Seconds: 86400
Window Semantics: [start,end)
Generated At: 2026-10-17T11:18:00Z
Run Mode: scheduled
Coverage Level: County-by-county recovery ladder completed; five category passes and a second recovery pass completed; retained facts validated from directly opened pages.
Assigned Locations: 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
Validated incident count: 3
Retrieval Metrics: {"accepted": 3, "blocked_recovery_attempts": 1, "candidates_reviewed": 7, "category_passes": 5, "county_searches": 9, "rejected": 4, "second_recovery_pass": true, "supporting_pages_opened": 3}
Candidate Ledger:
- Rejected 1: Downtown Chicago suspicious-powder response: publication preceded the window.
- Rejected 2: Kane County fiery crash: occurrence date could not be established from an opened page.
- Rejected 3: Two routine closure notices lacked incident impact.
- Rejected 4: One social-media-only lead lacked a recoverable supporting page.
Validated Incidents:
INCIDENT 1
Country: United States
State: IL
Latitude: None
Longitude: None
Layer: Incidents
Event Status: Closed
Category: Hazmat
Priority: High
Confidence Score: 0.88
Verification Status: Source-linked
Source Role: Established local news
Title: Hydrochloric-acid truck rollover closes I-90
Incident Type: Hazardous-materials truck rollover
Location: I-90 westbound at Illinois Route 23 near Harmony/Marengo
County: McHenry County
City: Marengo
Occurred At: 2026-10-16
Occurrence Time Basis: Reported as shortly after midnight Central Time; exact minute unavailable
Published At: 2026-10-16T17:04:00Z
Incident Summary: A semi carrying hydrochloric acid rolled over, prompting a hazmat response and a full westbound closure. No injuries were reported; all lanes reopened about 11:45 a.m. Friday.
Preparedness Relevance: Hazardous cargo and a prolonged interstate closure created responder-exposure and transportation impacts.
Severity: High
Source Title: Semi truck carrying hydrochloric acid rolls over on I-90 prompting hazmat response in McHenry County
Source URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/semi-truck-rolls-over-i-90-hazmat-response-mchenry/
Source Notes: Directly opened CBS Chicago report; late-publication incident.
END INCIDENT
INCIDENT 2
Country: United States
State: IL
Latitude: None
Longitude: None
Layer: Incidents
Event Status: Closed
Category: Traffic
Priority: Medium
Confidence Score: 0.86
Verification Status: Source-linked
Source Role: Specialized local news
Title: Two truck crashes close Route 14 in Woodstock
Incident Type: Multi-vehicle commercial-truck crashes
Location: Route 14 near Lake Avenue and Blain's Farm & Fleet
County: McHenry County
City: Woodstock
Occurred At: 2026-10-15T18:30:00Z
Occurrence Time Basis: Fire/police timing reported by the opened local source
Published At: 2026-10-17T01:46:00Z
Incident Summary: Two commercial-truck crashes occurred at nearly the same time on slick new pavement; a lumber truck rolled and a dumpster truck left the road. No injuries were reported and eastbound lanes reopened about 3:40 p.m.
Preparedness Relevance: Simultaneous heavy-vehicle crashes caused a corridor shutdown and required multi-agency traffic management.
Severity: Medium
Source Title: Route 14 shut down after 2 trucks crash at the same time on slick new pavement
Source URL: https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/10/16/route-14-shut-down-after-2-trucks-crash-at-the-same-time-on-slick-new-pavement-1-rolls-onto-its-side-in-woodstock/
Source Notes: Directly opened report; event preceded window but publication was in-window.
END INCIDENT
INCIDENT 3
Country: United States
State: IL
Latitude: None
Longitude: None
Layer: Incidents
Event Status: Ongoing
Category: Traffic
Priority: High
Confidence Score: 0.88
Verification Status: Source-linked
Source Role: Specialized local news
Title: Student injured after being run over by school bus
Incident Type: School-bus pedestrian collision
Location: Stevenson High School, 1 Stevenson Drive
County: Lake County
City: Lincolnshire
Occurred At: 2026-10-15T22:30:00Z
Occurrence Time Basis: Police and fire timing attributed in opened report
Published At: 2026-10-16T20:44:00Z
Incident Summary: A 14-year-old student slipped near a school bus and was run over. The student sustained leg injuries described as non-life-threatening and was hospitalized; police continued investigating.
Preparedness Relevance: A youth injury involving a school bus has school-transportation safety and response implications.
Severity: High
Source Title: 14-year-old student run over by school bus after slipping at Stevenson High School
Source URL: https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/10/16/serious-bus-collision-14-year-old-student-run-over-by-school-bus-after-slipping-at-stevenson-high-school-in-lincolnshire/
Source Notes: Directly opened report; no exact coordinates supplied.
END INCIDENT
Caveats: Source coverage is retrieval-bounded. Absence of a retained incident in another assigned county does not establish that no qualifying incident occurred there. Late-publication incidents are labeled by their occurrence basis. Coordinates remain None where a verified scene coordinate was unavailable.
END COUNTY RESULT