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Officials identified 47-year-old Jorge Vaca of Cicero as the man who died in an explosion on I-290 near Mannheim Road in Westchester, which shut the highway for nearly nine hours. Federal, state, and local agencies, including the FBI and ATF, led the investigation; authorities say there is no link to other events and no ongoing threat, with additional details to be released by the Cook County Medical Examiner.
All lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway reopened by 6:55 p.m. after a roughly nine-hour closure when an SUV was found with a dead occupant and shell casings on the outbound side near Westchester; the FBI, ATF and DEA are leading the investigation, with authorities not yet releasing a cause of death.
A death investigation closed lanes on I-290 in Chicago's west suburbs between 25th Ave and Wolf Rd for hours as local and federal authorities, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, and a Cook County bomb squad, probe an apparent incident involving a Volkswagen SUV; the vehicle was towed and some ramps reopened by evening as the investigation continued.
A deadly crash on the westbound I-290 near Harlem Avenue in Oak Park involved a Jeep and a Saturn; one person was ejected and died at the scene, another injured, and all lanes were reopened at 9:35 a.m., according to Illinois State Police.