Gas leak in West Town disrupts CTA Blue Line service
CTA Blue Line trains were disrupted early Thursday afternoon due to a gas leak near the Division Street station in Chicago's West Town community.
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CTA Blue Line trains were disrupted early Thursday afternoon due to a gas leak near the Division Street station in Chicago's West Town community.
A woman was cut with a sharp object during a fight on a CTA Blue Line train near Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
A woman was cut with a sharp object during a fight on a CTA Blue Line train near Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
Lawrence Reed, the man accused of setting a young woman on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train this past November, appeared in court Tuesday.
A man has been charged with stabbing a CTA passenger to death while the victim was sleeping on a Blue Line train over the weekend in the Loop.
A man was charged in the deadly stabbing on a CTA Blue Line train early Saturday morning.
This comes as one North Side alderman is calling for people not use public transit at night until CTA can prove it's safe.
A man was found stabbed to death at a CTA Blue Line station in downtown Chicago early Saturday morning.
The stabbing occurred inside a Blue Line train car at the Clark and Lake stop downtown just before 2:30 a.m.
A man was found stabbed to death at a CTA Blue Line station in downtown Chicago early Saturday morning.
A hazmat response was called at the Washington CTA Blue Line station in the Loop Friday.
The incident happened around 7:40 p.m. in the 5000 block of South Kedzie Avenue in the Gage Park neighborhood.
The robot vacuum was spotted on the CTA Blue Line Train. It is unclear who owns it or why it was on the train.
A man was slashed during a fight on a CTA Blue Line train early Sunday.
Chicago police say the victim got into an argument with another man who then took out a sharp object and cut the victim's hand.
A man stood charged with arson and criminal damage to property Sunday after police said he set himself on fire on a CTA Blue Line train last week.
Police said they responded just after 6 p.m. Friday after Jesus Martinez intentionally set fire to his personal belongings on a moving train at the Damen stop in the heart of Wicker Park. Martinez's person also caught fire, police said.
The Chicago Transit Authority extended the No. 93 California/Dodge bus route to the Logan Square Blue Line subway station. The extension went into effect Sunday.
A grand jury this week indicted a man on charges of setting a young woman on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train last month, and also setting a fire outside City Hall.
Days after new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, Sheriff Tom Dart said this crisis isn't new, and that he's been warning lawmakers of problems for years.
The man charged with pushing a CTA passenger onto the tracks at a Blue Line station in Chicago's western suburbs on Monday was ordered held in jail, after repeatedly interrupting the judge and prosecutors during his first court appearance on Wednesday.
One day after he was sworn in, new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach said he is ordering an urgent review of the county's troubled electronic monitoring program.
A Chicago man has been charged with attempted murder, accused of punching a senior citizen and knocking him onto the tracks at a CTA Blue Line station in west suburban Forest Park.
Charles Beach was sworn in on Monday as Cook County's first new chief judge in 24 years, and takes over amid a political firestorm over what appears to be systemic issues with how accused criminals are being monitored before trial.
An attack on a CTA train has a local outreach group taking action. Volunteers with the nonprofit Violence Interrupters said they're ready to patrol trains themselves to stop violence before it starts.
