One person killed, 3 others injured after a box truck rear-ends a tractor-trailer on northbound I-55 near Romeoville, Illinois

One person was killed in a crash Wednesday afternoon on Interstate-55 near south suburban Romeoville, state police said. A box truck crashed into the back of a semi before 3 p.m. on northbound I-55 near the Weber Road exit, police said. Video of the scene showed the front of the box truck was barely recognizable. One northbound lane of the interstate was reopend by 5 p.m. after being shut down for a couple of hours, but traffic remained snarled traffic in both directions as the crash investigation continued.