Free rides, reduced fares offered during Blue Line construction between LaSalle, Illinois Medical District
It's the first phase of a more than $250 million project - replacing nearly three miles of track and rebuilding the Racine station.
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It's the first phase of a more than $250 million project - replacing nearly three miles of track and rebuilding the Racine station.
Riders who use that West Side route, are eligible for free or reduced fares.
Police say the suspect gained access to the employee's booth and removed her belongings before fleeing the scene at the Damen station on May 15.
Police arrested the 16-year-old on Friday, in the 10000 block of South Prairie Avenue.
The suspects approached the victim, pulled a handgun, and demanded their property, police said.
Police say an unknown male victim was struck by the incoming train, in the 400 block of South Damen Avenue around 4 a.m.
Prosecutors revealed disturbing new details in court on Tuesday about what CTA cameras caught early Saturday morning when a CTA employee, on the job, allegedly beat a passenger. The passenger later died and the employee was charged with aggravated battery, but not murder. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza was in court to get the details.
A CTA employee was charged with aggravated battery in connection with a weekend attack of a passenger on the LaSalle Blue Line platform. That passenger later died. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza had the story.
Detectives say the victim, a 54-year-old man, was discovered unresponsive in a stairwell landing.
A teenage girl is charged after attacking and robbing another teen outside a CTA Blue Line stop earlier this month.
Police say around 5:15 p.m., the suspect approached a 26-year-old woman at the stop, located in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, took her headphones, and fled the scene.
Mass transit detectives are looking to identify the person who robbed a woman at the CTA Division Blue Line stop Monday.
A person had to be rescued at a CTA blue line station after they somehow ended up on the tracks.
Shuttle buses will replace Blue Line trains between Addison and Western.
The CTA is pausing service from Western to Addison.
Investigators said the victim was followed off a train after a quarrel.
Police say the suspect approached and struck the victim in the face with a closed fist unprovoked.
Responding officers quickly located the suspect near the scene and placed him in custody.
"In an instant you know, in a minute, my life changed."
The man robbed a passenger at knifepoint at the Montrose station along the Kennedy Expressway.
Police said a man is walking up to passengers on the train and taking their belongings at gunpoint.
The robberies happened during the months of October and November.
The suspect produced a knife and stabbed the victim in the right side of the chest before fleeing, police say.
A 16-year-old boy is charged with robbing a man on the CTA Blue Line train last month.
Police said the offender took the victim's wallet and got off the train at Jackson Boulevard.
