CTA Investigating After Set Of Doors Opened On Blue Line Train After Pulling Out Of Damen Stop
A CTA Blue Line train gave riders a scare Wednesday, as it thundered toward the Loop with some of its doors open.
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A CTA Blue Line train gave riders a scare Wednesday, as it thundered toward the Loop with some of its doors open.
The CTA will pay $4.3 million to the family of a Pilsen woman who was killed in a hit-and-run accident and then hit a second time by a bus.
Fares may be going up for Pace suburban bus riders who use cash.
The hunger strike continues over the future direction of Dyett High School in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood.
Some of the 35 dogs rescued by workers in hazmat suits in May from a dilapidated house in north suburban Glencoe are finally ready for new homes. A number were offered for adoption at a fair Saturday in Winnetka.
Earlier this week, 13 people were murdered and 32 wounded in shootings in Chicago during a 36-hour period, the deadliest stretch the city has seen since 2003.
There were no disruptions Thursday night during the last of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's three town hall meetings on next year's Chicago city budget, but there wasn't time for much else, either.
Horticulturalists at the Chicago Botanic Garden manually cut open the corpse flower nicknamed "Spike" Sunday morning.
The cool weather in the past week has some people thinking about fall -- and Halloween costumes.
The male suspect appeared two evenings last week in the park next to the Holmes School, at 160th Street and Carse Avenue.
The Chicago Department of Transportation is putting an indefinite hold on plans to rebuild Oak Park Avenue on the Northwest Side because city crews have discovered bodies buried beneath the pavement.
The CTA initiative will be a part of the agency's successful Second Chance Program, which trains non-violent ex-offenders, victims of abuse, and others who face barriers to employment.
The beautiful, six-foot-tall rainforest flower that packs a terrible smell is inching closer to blooming at the Chicago Botanic Garden, in Glencoe. But botanists say it's not quite ready for its moment of late night glory.
The controversy over videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of body parts from aborted fetuses drew hundreds of people to a protest outside of the group's Aurora clinic this morning.
The jury made the decision Friday evening following a weeklong trial that focused on the value of Jordan's name.
COD spokesman Randall Samborn said the vote begins a process in which board chair Katherine Hamilton provides Breuder with a notice of intent to terminate him for cause. Breuder has administrative due process rights, in which he has the right to hearings that can conclude in an appeal to the full board of trustees.
One problem with that: There is no state budget. WBBM's Bob Roberts reports.
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster says he is deluged with requests for tickets to see Pope Francis when the pontiff addresses Congress next month.
What's left of an old Loop 'L' station is being sold off piece by piece in what some may say is an odd partnership.
Bryant Brewer claims he shot the officer in self-defense, but brewer took the stand last week and testified that he was proud of being a cop killer.
A 20-year-old man whose interaction with police and Secret Service agents outside of President Obama's Kenwood home earlier this week prompted a bomb squad response has been ordered held on $250,000 bond.
Lincolnwood police say the attack occurred Thursday as a 10-year-old girl, her eight-year-old brother and two friends walked the family's dog in Rowley Park.
Summer vacation is almost over for high school students in north suburban Mundelein, where the first day of classes is Aug. 11, two or more weeks before most districts.
On cell phone video, a South Holland police officer is heard cursing at a young driver, Rodney Wilson, trying to get him to leave his car.
A six-year-old boy died and 10 other people were hurt Tuesday when a bus from a Gary church en route to a national youth convention in Dayton, Ohio., hit a tree, flipped over and caught fire.
