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Palos Park Police Offer Free Sober Rides Home New Year’s Eve

Too many cocktails? Palos Park police are offering rides home to New Year's revelers, even the chief, no questions asked.

PALOS PARK, IL — If you’ve overindulged in Palos Park on New Year’s Eve, Palos Park police officers will be offering free sober rides home throughout the night. Officers will also be available to check on underage people left at home alone during this time.

Rides will be offered from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. Officers will take revelers home, and not to another bar or party. No lectures and no questions asked.

Should you find yourself in a situation where you don’t think you can get behind the wheel safely (you don’t have be staggering, even buzzed driving can cause a person to get arrested for DUI or become involved in a tragic accident), call Palos Park police at 708-448-2191, or Chief Joe Miller’s cell at 708-259-1035.

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