Twenty-Five Tanker Cars Derail In Plainfield, IL -- Crude Oil Spill -- NOT The Highly Flammable Bakken Oil

Updates

July 1, 2017: except for the carrier and the local community, this has quickly morphed into a non-story. Maybe as much as 45,000 gallons leaked from two cars, possibly a third; most of the crude oil ran into trenches being dug for a natural gas pipeline. No oil got into any river and authorities said, again, there was no risk to anyone. The clean-up will take a few days.

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From CBS Local, so far:

• no injuries
• derailed on 143rd Street east of Van Dyke Road just after 6:30 p.m. Friday
• 40,000 gallons (again, so far)
• Canadian National Railroad
• 25 cars derailed
• oil leaking from three cars
• oil has not reached the DuPage River
• strong oil smell; "almost sickening"
• Plainfield, IL: about 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago
• Plainfield, IL: about 50 miles northwest of Kankakee, Illinois

City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie
No one says "Kankakee" better than Arlo Guthrie. 

Wow, I love this country.