Traffic & Transit

Car Crash Closes Portion Of Lake Cook Road: Deerfield PD

Police were asking drivers to find alternate routes following the Thursday afternoon crash.

Police sent out a road closure alert at 12:45 p.m.
Police sent out a road closure alert at 12:45 p.m. (Kristin Borden/Patch)

DEERFIELD, IL — A car crash closed a portion of Lake Cook Road Thursday afternoon. Police said in a road closure alert, sent out at 12:45 p.m., the westbound lane of Lake Cook at Pfingsten Road will be "temporarily" shut down. Police were asking drivers to find alternate routes.

At 1:13 p.m., police said the closed portion of the road had reopened.

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