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Family members of a Lemont Township native who’d hoped to celebrate his college graduation this weekend are instead mourning his death in a motorcycle crash.
30-year-old Paul Davidson was about to graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in architecture.
In fact, he was celebrating with his father Paul Jr. and other family members on Friday night.
An Illinois man was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Rock County early Sunday.
Christopher Huggins, 20, of Rockford, Ill., was a passenger in a car driven by Devon Hurd, 19, of Machesny Park, Ill., when the vehicle slid on a gravel road in the Town of Avon around 2:25 a.m. Sunday, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Department. The car slid off the road and struck a grove of trees on the passenger side, heavily damaging the vehicle.
Huggins died at the scene. Hurd was taken to Mercy Hospital in Janesville, where he was treated for minor injuries.
Authorities say a worker at a farm chemical company died after his fertilizer truck was struck by an Amtrak train in the east-central Illinois community of Savoy.
Champaign County Sheriff officials say the 42-year-old man was from Newman, but his name hasn't been released. He died after being airlifted to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
Authorities stated that the man was driving a three-wheeled fertilizer truck out of a farm field on Thursday night when he drove in front of the northbound Amtrak train.
Authorities in southern Illinois' Jackson County say one person was killed and several others injured in a weekend crash of an off-road vehicle.
Authorities say nine people were in the vehicle at the time of the wreck shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday near Ava. The passengers included seven children, ranging in age from 2 to 14 years old.
Investigators say the 21-year-old driver, Brian Modglin, attempted a sharp turn and lost control of the vehicle, which then overturned.
Modglin later died at a Murphysboro hospital.
Authorities say one person died and six others were hurt during a weekend crash near the central Illinois community of Minonk.
The Marshall County Coroner says Saturday night's crash killed 83-year-old LaSalle resident Nancy Hylla after her car drove through the median and into oncoming traffic, hitting two cars. Occupants of a fourth car were injured when they swerved to avoid the crash.
Investigators say they're still trying piece together what happened before the crash, but say one victim is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
A south-central Illinois man has died after a tractor he was driving flipped onto him. Kenneth Zarecki of Mulberry Grove died Saturday. The Fayette County Coroner said Zarecki, 65, was killed instantly. He says Zarecki was using the tractor to remove a tree when the tractor flipped and pinned him. Bowen pronounced Zarecki dead at the scene. The coroner's office is continuing to investigate the accident. Mulberry Grove is a village of about 600 residents in Bond County. It is about 60 miles northeast of St. Louis.