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Michael Wogronic (Michael_fvm)
Junior Member
Username: Michael_fvm
Post Number: 81
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 2:26 pm: | |
Yeah, he lived a few blocks from me. |
Andreas Forrer (Tifosi12)
Intermediate Member
Username: Tifosi12
Post Number: 2102
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 1:32 pm: | |
Actually it is a thread in the main section. Look for Empress casino.
Did anybody here know the owner? |
Tod Whitmore (Tod)
New member
Username: Tod
Post Number: 32
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 1:23 pm: | |
Did you guys here about this one? A friend of mine sent this article to me.
By Karen Mellen
Tribune staff reporter
Published September 9, 2003
Thomas J. Lambrecht, 54, a founder of Joliet's Empress Casino and the second-generation owner of a successful construction business, died Sunday evening when the sports car he was driving flipped over on 151st Street in the recently incorporated town of Homer Glen in Homer Township, police said.
Lambrecht was speeding westbound on 151st Street, where the speed limit is 45 m.p.h., when he apparently lost control of the car about three-quarters of a mile west of Cedar Road, police said. He was pronounced dead at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, the Will County Sheriff's Department said.
Nickolaos Visvardis, 46, of Palos Park, a passenger and the owner of the 1989 Ferrari convertible, also was taken to Silver Cross, where he was in good condition, a spokeswoman said Monday.
According to witnesses and evidence at the scene, the car went into a ditch on the south side of the road, then crossed over the road where it struck a culvert and went airborne. Lambrecht and Visvardis were ejected and the car landed upside down, police said. Neither was wearing a seat belt, said Ray Horwath, director of the sheriff's department traffic section.
Horwath said he did not know how fast the car was traveling, but it was faster than the speed limit. It did not appear drugs or alcohol were involved, he said, but the Will County coroner's office will do toxicology tests, which are standard in all traffic fatalities.
Visvardis told police he had gone to Lambrecht's residence, where his friend asked if he could drive the Ferrari. |
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