Gotcha... yes, I know the area roughly, I take, I think...88 to 39 up there, but I always thought Quad Cities was closer, never had to travel that far west by auto...anyways, sorry, didn't know Rockford was his hometown, I heard Chicago and figured he maybe moved out a bit from the city to avoid getting caught. I mainly work in Hinsdale, where not to long ago a similar situation happened where a guy tried to blow up a bomb in our train station. I never had a chance to read about it, don't know if it actually exploded, but no injuries. We have, however, received repeated threats to our PD that another bomb will detonate there shortly. We received a letter from local police, alerting the residents and store owners to keep an eye out for suspicious characters or odd-looking packages. Great, now I get to look over my shoulder every time I walk around town.
When you get to that junction of I-39 and I-88, we're right there; Rochelle, IL. When you turn North on I-39, the first exit (within 1 1/2 miles) is State Route 38 which is Roosevelt Rd in Chicago. And yes, the Quad Cities are aways out there. It takes us a good 1 3/4 hours to get to our relatives in Rock Island. We're going again for Christmas. I'm originally from Oak Park.
I recall that bomb thing in Hinsdale, but didn't know there were ongoing threats. That's bad. No one wants to live under a cloud like that. As I posted earlier on this thread, we had our school bomb scare here in October, but haven't heard a word about it since. I think it was the timing of this perp's stuff in Rockford that made me wonder whether he was involved in our scare.