More than two years after a divided Mount Prospect village board voted to remove a controversial police patch from its officers uniforms, the department has found its replacement.
The local headlines were dominated in 2021 by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the sale of a suburban jewel Arlington Park as a potential new home of the Chicago Bears. But that was far from all that happened during another eventful year.
Mount Prospect reached closure Tuesday on the issue of the controversial "thin blue line" patch, when it handed out a check from money raised by sales of the decommissioned patches to a fund for fallen first responders at police headquarters.
Two Algonquin residents are found dead after well-being check. Buffalo Grove police shoot and kill an Elgin man who was firing guns. The U.S. attorney s office is investigating Itasca over the Haymarket proposal. Old Mount Prospect police patches are now for sale for charity. United Airlines moving 900 workers to Arlington Heights.
The Mount Prospect Police Department is selling its decommissioned police patches to raise money for a charity that supports the families of first responders killed in the line of duty.