5 young people charged in CTA robbery with help of pastor
Three of the defendants turned themselves in to police Monday night.
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Three of the defendants turned themselves in to police Monday night.
Pastor Corey Brooks connected with three of their parents and brought them into police. Tara Molina reports.
Pastor Corey Brooks saw the photo of the alleged offenders for whom police were looking in the robbery at the 47th Street Green Line station, and recognized all of them. Tara Molina reports.
The robberies happened Tuesday night on a southbound train near the Bryn Mawr, Sheridan, and Clark and Division stations, according to CPD.
The robberies happened Tuesday night on a southbound train near the Bryn Mawr, Sheridan, and Clark and Division stations, according to CPD.
The stabbing on an Orange Line train downtown early Friday was one of several recent early-morning violent crimes on the Chicago Transit Authority system. Megan Hickey reports.
An expert says repeated violence on the Chicago Transit Authority it might have to do with low ridership. Megan Hickey reports.
The train had just pulled into a station at the time, police said. Police did not specify which station.
The theft happened at an unspecified stop on the Pink Line.
Police said around 4 a.m. on Aug. 29, the woman approached the victim from behind on the platform at the Pulaski stop and began striking the victim in the head and body.
Social media shows the employee clad in a neon CTA vest—intervening as a colleague was attacked.
The CTA employee said he also cannot go to work to do his dream job of fixing buses while he is injured. Sabrina Franza reports.
Police say the suspect stabbed one passenger and battered another in two separate incidents on CTA Red Line trains.
Such an outcome for unhoused people is something those at Connections for the Homeless worry about every day.
The suspected shooter, Rhanni Davis, was charged in connection with the shooting deaths of four people.
The ZeroEyes software, which uses AI to detect guns, has been in use at Navy Pier for nearly two years.
Margaret Miller Johnson, one of the four people shot and killed on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train this week, is remembered by Evanston's Connections for the Homeless for her sweet demeanor and beautiful smile. Sara Machi reports.
The technology, ZeroEyes, is also in use by the Chicago Transit Authority in a pilot program, and the security director at Navy Pier wants to see the CTA program expanded. Megan Hickey reports.
The union wants security officers with the power to arrest people to be deployed on trains.
Navy Pier Security Director Dan O’Shea hopes the Chicago Transit Authority expands its pilot program with the same technology, ZeroEyes—particularly after four people were shot and killed on a Blue Line train this week. Megan Hickey reports.
Chicago police say they were identified as the offenders who, on Aug 20, just before 4 p.m., battered and seriously injured a 31-year-old man before robbing him while on the platform in the 400 block of South Western Avenue.
In court Wednesday, Cook County prosecutors used evidence to piece together a timeline of the shooting that killed four people on the Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line in Forest Park. Rhanni Davis is now charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Sara Machi reports.
The father of Simeon Bihesi, 28, said his son had fallen on hard times before he was shot and killed on the CTA train early Monday morning.
Forest Park village leadership says problems at the terminal go back years—and have only gotten worse.
Alderpeople's disdain for Carter has been renewed in light of the murders.
