Midwest Center for Traffic Safety

10/20/2026

👏 A big thank you to Mindr, a Presenting Sponsor of the 2026 Midwest Traffic Safety Conference!

Mindr’s generous support helps us bring together officers, prosecutors, crash investigators, and traffic safety professionals to share knowledge, strengthen partnerships, and work toward safer roads.

📅 November 10–12, 2026
📍 The Westin Chicago Northwest | Itasca, Illinois

We appreciate Mindr’s commitment to traffic safety and helping make this event possible!

🌐 Show our sponsor some support! Visit www.mindr.com to learn more about their work and safety technology.

Register to attend by November 1, and visit with Mindr at their booth during the conference!

Safer Starts with Mindr. We keep people and communities safe. For more than 35 years we’ve been a force for good, helping people make positive changes.

10/13/2026

🚨 CLOSE TO 400 ATTENDEES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY—WILL YOU BE THERE?

Join us for the Midwest Traffic Safety Conference, November 10–12, 2026, at the Westin Chicago Northwest in Itasca, Illinois!

Connect with fellow traffic safety professionals, build your knowledge, and bring fresh ideas back to your agency and community.

⏰ Two deadlines you don’t want to miss:
🏨 October 20: Last day to secure the special conference hotel rate. Limited rooms remain—book yours soon!
📋 November 1: Last day to register to attend.

Make your plans now—register and reserve your hotel room today!

🔗 Register here: https://www.midwesttrafficsafety.org/mtsc

10/11/2026

🧀🏈 WELL, THIS IS AWKWARD… 🏈🧀

A bet is a bet, and here at the Midwest Center for Traffic Safety, we believe in accountability. Even when it requires us to wear green and gold. 🤦‍♂️

Congratulations to our friends at the Wisconsin Traffic Safety Officers Association! As promised, we’re proudly (and somewhat reluctantly) flying your colors for the next 24 hours.

While our football allegiances may divide us, our commitment to safer roadways brings us together. Whether it’s Illinois or Wisconsin, traffic safety doesn’t recognize state lines, and neither should cooperation.

After all, great partnerships are built on teamwork, mutual respect, and occasionally having to eat a little crow. Or in this case, cheese. 🧀😂

Enjoy your victory, Wisconsin. We’ll be back in navy and orange tomorrow.

Same mission. Different colors. Safer roads.

10/11/2026

🚨🏈 INTERSTATE TRAFFIC SAFETY ADVISORY 🏈🚨

ILLINOIS vs. WISCONSIN

The Midwest Center for Traffic Safety would like to issue a friendly advisory to our colleagues at the Wisconsin Traffic Safety Officers Association.

Tomorrow, the Chicago Bears travel north to Green Bay for another chapter of football’s greatest rivalry.

As a regional traffic safety organization headquartered in Illinois, we take great pride in our partnerships with Wisconsin’s law enforcement community.

However, we’ve come to accept that even highly trained traffic safety professionals occasionally demonstrate questionable judgment when it comes to choosing football teams. 🧀 😆

In the spirit of interstate cooperation, we’d like to propose a friendly wager:

🏈 THE BORDER BATTLE CHALLENGE

The losing team’s organization must:

🟠 Fly the winning team’s colors on its Facebook cover photo for 24 hours.

No excuses. No appeals.
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Regardless of Sunday’s outcome, we’re proud to stand alongside our incredible Wisconsin partners in making Midwest roadways safer.

Our commitment to traffic safety crosses state lines. Our football loyalty does not. 😂

So, Wisconsin Traffic Safety Officers Association……

Do we have a deal????

10/10/2026

Today, we join Chicago and football fans everywhere in remembering the legendary “Iron Mike” Ditka.

Coach Ditka was more than a Hall of Fame football player and Super Bowl-winning coach. He was a symbol of toughness, accountability, leadership, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

He believed in preparation, teamwork, discipline, and doing the little things right. He understood that success wasn’t built on individual talent alone, but on people coming together, accepting responsibility, and working toward a common goal.

At the Midwest Center for Traffic Safety, those principles resonate with our mission.

While our playing field looks a little different, we believe meaningful progress in traffic safety requires the same fundamentals: strong leadership, committed partnerships, consistent effort, and a willingness to hold ourselves accountable.

Whether we’re bringing law enforcement agencies together, advancing traffic safety education, or developing initiatives to make our roadways safer, we know that lasting success is a team effort.

Iron Mike helped define an era of Chicago sports. His passion, larger-than-life personality, and unmistakable leadership style will forever be part of the city’s identity.

Today, we tip our sunglasses to a Chicago icon.

Rest easy, Coach. Your legacy is built to last.

10/01/2026

Join the Midwest Center and a group of leading experts for an engaging seminar exploring practical ways to improve fleet operations, share insights, and discover new approaches to running a more efficient fleet.

09/26/2026

So much learning is going on! Today, we completed the Advanced Truck Enforcement class in Carol Stream, gaining new perspectives on the interaction between the industry and law enforcement.

Meanwhile, Russo Power Equipment - Elgin, IL welcomed us to its Elgin store to educate its customers on cargo securement and crash mitigation—a big thank-you to Safety Management Success for assisting us with the presentation.

If you missed this presentation, we will be in Valparaiso next month and New Berlin in November.

09/25/2026

Prosecutors in Missouri and Illinois- Big news- you can earn CLEs at the 2026 Midwest Traffic Safety Conference!

Missouri CLE's 21.5 Hours
Illinois CLE's 18.5 Hours (Anticipated)

Register to attend, the group rate at The Westin Chicago Northwest closes on October 20, 2026.

09/24/2026

We’re thrilled to invite you to the Midwest Center with Russo Power in Valparaiso, Indiana, on October 22, 2026, for a transformative seminar on the vital importance of commercial vehicle safety!

https://mailchi.mp/midwesttrafficsafety.org/stay-safe-on-the-road-seminar-with-russo-outdoor-power-plus