Started in 1998 with the three high schools in Crystal Lake cooperating with the CL Police Department and the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce, Operation Click is now a robust two-state enterprise dedicated to keeping teens safe while driving their … Continue reading
Operation Click, Operation Cool before 2007, started in Crystal Lake as a joint project between the police department and the high school district. The goal was to stop car accident deaths of teenagers. Inducements were large and small. The large … Continue reading
Two car crashes last year killing Huntley teens, plus a twenty-year old from Algonquin, may have led to the formation of an Operation Click chapter covering Dundee-Crown, Huntley, Marengo, Hampshire and Algonquin’s Jacob High School. During the d’Andrea’s 2013 Operation … Continue reading
Huntley is in mourning the death of 19-year old Jennifer Kearns. She was thrown from a car on the way to Donley’s Banquet Hall south of Union last night. Kearns was not wearing a seat belt. Neither were any of … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: Enforcement Torch Run to Benefit Special Olympics Cop on the Roof Event On Friday, May 20th, 2011, members of the Crystal Lake Police Department will be participating in the Law Enforcement … Continue reading
For the three McHenry County high school students who won cars when their key started the ignition at Crystal Lake’s Advocate Good Shepherd-sponsored awards ceremony Thursday, ownership of their own car was the highlight of the day. For the mission … Continue reading
Three McHenry County high school students won cars (donated by the private sector) from Operation Click Thursday. Schools are grouped in three chapters in McHenry County. The first was comprised of the Woodstock High Schools, Marian Central and Harvard High … Continue reading
The program to entice high school students to fasten their seat belts that started in Crystal Lake will hold its annual awards luncheon at D’Andrea’s Banquets at 10:45 on Thursday, April 21st. That’s what Crystal Lake Policeman Sean McGrath, the … Continue reading
Operation Click, the seat belt encouragement program that started in Crystal Lake has been extended to Richmond-Burton and Johnsburg High Schools with major help from the Richmond-Spring Grove Kiwanis Club. Meeting in Crystal Lake at what is called an “interclub,” … Continue reading
Operation Click, the seat belt encouragement program that started in Crystal Lake has been extended to Richmond-Burton and Johnsburg High Schools with major help from the Richmond-Spring Grove Kiwanis Club. Meeting in Crystal Lake at what is called an “interclub,” … Continue reading
The Daily Herald’s Chuck Keeshan reported yesterday afternoon that Crystal Lake Police Office Sean McGrath has been awarded the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety. Only one police officer in the whole world … Continue reading
The Daily Herald’s Chuck Keeshan reported yesterday afternoon that Crystal Lake Police Office Sean McGrath has been awarded the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety. Only one police officer in the whole world … Continue reading
