so.....off on a trail and unfortunately he collapses and dies. /and his daughter sees a way to get some money from the taxpayers/ ......same old story......

The worst part is that after lawyer fees and charges, Ms. Kaniewski will receive about enough money to have a happy meal at McDonald's. It's about time to tear down these corporate and municipal shields that harbor malfeasance. I don't think it's fair that the taxpayer's should be on the hook because a bureaucracy takes 42 minutes to respond to an emergency. Especially only to have a lawyer receive the benefit.

And really. What kind of physical shape was he in?Overweight? Smoker? I highly doubt the. Firedept intentionally delayed responding those guys are the finest people on earth!

It wasn't intentional to be sure. But, here we are eleven years after 9/11 and despite billions if not trillions of dollars spent on emergency dispatch centers and communications, we (by almost every report) still have poor inter-agency communications and geo-physical locating capabilities. While our front line, first responders are the best in the world, they're hampered by the poor information and infrastructure. This is part and parcel of what goes wrong anytime the government is coupled with special interests and plenty of taxpayer dough.

I'd be interesting in hearing why it took 25 and 42 minutes to respond. Was adequate location information given, and were the cyclists in plain view, or did the responders only have general information, and have to pinpoint the location via foot search, GPS, or other means? Was emergency vehicle access inadequate because the cyclists were on a path not intended for vehicles? Did the 911 operator have clear instructions on who to dispatch, or does the unincorporated cook county location muddy the waters?

Lots of missing information here. I would expect it to take longer to respond to a location in a forest preserve than it would to a specific address, but it's not clear why it took 17 minutes longer for the fire dept. once the police could relay the location (unless it was an access issue). I'm hoping that the missing information would reveal that the cyclists' location is what impeded access/hampered response time, and not that inadequate communication relays or other response system snafus contributed to what might otherwise have been a 5-10 minute response.

No point in jumping to conclusions without facts. I, too, have the utmost respect for emergency first responders, and would like to presume that this was beyond their control, but if there’s a problem, I’d rather find out about it than blindly give my support. Whether or not this man could have been saved will be argued in court, but if he could have been and wasn’t, we should all be concerned...

Won't go to court. Just to save litigation costs glenview./ In other words US. /. A settlement will be offered as she well knows. And she will make a few bucks off her father's death. Of course it took abit longer to reach them off somewhere in the forest preserve. What were they supposed to do? Drive an ambulance through the forest!

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN YOU DIAL 911 FROM A CELL PHONE IT GOES TO STATE POLICE, WHICH THEN THE STATE POLICE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE YOU ARE TO TRANSFER YOU TO THE CORRECT POLICE DEPARTMENT. PLUS IT MAYBE IN GLENVIEW BUT IT BELONGS TO COOK COUNTY FOREST POLICE. SHE IS JUST TRYING TO GET MONEY OUT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT GLENVIEW IS ALSO IN UNDER STAFFED POLICE DEPARTMENT. PEOPLE NEED TO LOOK AT FACTS........

Still, 42 minutes for the Fire Dept. to get there, where they walking there?