Stolen yellow Superior Ambulance taken from a rehab center in Rockford, tracked eastbound on I‑290 with lights activated and later passing Harlem Avenue; tracking lost by Elmhurst., Cook County IL

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Motor Vehicle Theft

Reported: 12/17/2025 05:20 PM

I-290, Illinois

As discussed during the dispatch call, stolen yellow Superior Ambulance taken from a rehab center in Rockford, tracked eastbound on I‑290 with lights activated and later passing Harlem Avenue; tracking lost by Elmhurst.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Citywide Dispatch Channels

Listen to dispatch call

03:26

Transcript:

00:00

All right, Elmhurst had a stolen ambulance from Superior Ambulance Company.

00:06

They're currently tracking it.

00:07

I-290 eastbound at 25th Avenue, eastbound 290 at 25th Avenue, with the lights activated.

00:15

If anyone has eyes on it, I don't have further details than that, but give me a few.

00:23

6409 bullies drop on the dock.

00:25

Yeah, 10.

00:31

50,700 Adam on 311.

00:37

Okay, they're having to have the plate on that ambulance, too, because it appears they never swept out an ISPERN flash for it.

00:45

Um, I'm going to play.

00:46

All right.

00:52

All right with it.

00:58

721454. All 6-4.

01:02

7214-5-4. Perfect, thank you.

01:09

And PH2, you guys available.

01:12

We're going to that.

01:14

All right, perfect, thank you.

01:27

304 north. All right, zero four north.

01:31

Numbers on the 953 red line, one north and one south.

01:35

Yeah, one zero six six seven and one zero six seven zero.

01:48

All right, and everybody just used caution.

01:51

This is actually, this all started in Rockford.

01:53

It was the resident of a rehab center who stole it, and it's going to be a yellow ambulance, yellow superior ambulance.

02:23

73.83, Frank?

02:25

7383.

02:26

We get two events for Howard Station, upper, and lower.

02:30

Yeah, that's 10682 and 10684.

02:36

2385,

02:41

Frank. 785, Frank.

02:43

735, Frank.

02:45

At 7808 State Street, can you roll the ambulance for a car accident and after a paper car?

02:51

You said, where the 7th of state or 71st State?

02:55

79 State, 79 State.

02:57

79th State, okay, down for...

03:04

State doesn't have an ambulance?

03:06

No, not yet.

03:10

Elmhurst was tracking it with the company, but they are no longer in contact with them.

03:19

That ambulance just passed, Harlem.

03:22

In Harlem. There we go, he's been 290 passing Harlem, 10.

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I-290, Illinois

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