Hmm...What can we deduce from the above picture? U of I sweatshirt, long billed cap that is actually positioned on the head in a correct manner. Just a wild guess but maybe... a couple of U of I graduate students taking it easy and just enjoying their summer break after a grueling semester of a Quantum Mechanics and it's related curriculum.

However, It was later discovered by these two gentleman that they completely misunderstood proper collection protocols and that TFC Bank is not the place were one would get his or her share of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus ( aka redistribution of wealth) package. Oh well, they'll realize their mistake at some point and return the money.

This morning I saw a couple of police officers at the Metra station most likely trying to catch people crossing the tracks against the warning apparatus and I remembered they are probably getting some kind of grant to do so and I thought the same thing about their D.U.I. checks as well. I think a good story would be to publish where the police department budget money comes from such as property taxes, corporate taxes, and grants and my guess is their priorities are a little upside down because they take the property and corporate taxes as a given and they chase these grants which I would guess make up a small percentage of the entire revenue stream. Between the bank robberies and the home burglaries I think we the taxpayers need to become more vocal about how things are prioritized in Elmhurst and/or we should start looking at why we need what I hear is 70 full time employees in the department.

.... And stop hiding behind tree's to entrap seatbelt violaters !!

You couldn't have been more correct. More and more of these higher crime "professionals" will be hitting towns like Elmhurst because they know that most of their police force is uptown busting the tax paying citizens for crossing the railroad tracks, they're kids riding bikes on the sidewalks, or waiting to bust some kids driving 7 miles over the speed limit on the way to summer school or football practice. The drug dealers and burglers know they can hit towns like ours because our cops all have a "Mayberry RFD" mentality. What can we expect though, they can't even keep them under control in Chicago. When you've tapped all the resources in the boarder towns, the only place to go is where the money is. These criminals have our number.

May I suggest to those of you who have commented so far and have indicated your great lack of knowledge about how a police force operates, sign up for the police department's educational program. Then, maybe you will be far more educated on the subject matter enabling you to be making better sense with your criticisms .

Okay Bert,
And if I am ever at the hospital with a gaping chest wound and a hang nail and the doctor wants to treat my hang nail and ignore my gaping chest wound, I'll see if I can do some candy striping before I feel as though I am entitled to complain.

totally rational response there....wouldn't make any sense to learn because everyone here already knows everything- about as rational as GIVING THE TELLERS GUNS!!!

3 cameras needed: St. Charles, Butterfield, and Roosevelt.......instead they point a camera on the fountain uptown.......messed up priorities.