CTA Bus Struck After Driver Flees Shooter
A CTA bus was struck by a driver fleeing a shooter in the Woodland neighborhood.
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A CTA bus was struck by a driver fleeing a shooter in the Woodland neighborhood.
High-profile violent crimes plagued Chicago Transit Authority property in the weeks leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, but since then, CTA ridership has plummeted. So what about the violent crime?
A car slammed into a support column on the Green Line 'L' tracks in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Wednesday evening.
A man is recovering in the hospital after he was found on the Red Line tracks on the city's South Side.
The Red Line south of Garfield Boulevard and the Dan Ryan Expressway were both shut down Saturday as a police SWAT team responded for a man with a knife on the tracks at 79th Street.
A Chicago man was charged in a collision that caused a CTA bus to crash into a bank in The Loop on Thursday.
The videos include a longer version of the infamous cell phone video showing Officer Melvina Bogard shooting Ariel Roman in the stomach and lower at the Grand Red Line station on Feb. 28.
CTA Blue Line service was suspended between O'Hare and Jefferson Park Tuesday afternoon, due to what the agency called a "track condition."
CTA Brown Line service was halted between the Kimball and Southport stops Saturday evening due to a collision with a car near the Francisco station.
A Rogers Park teen was charged Monday with robbing another teenage boy on the Blue Line subway downtown.
Police said Mamadou Balde was on the platform around 5:15 p.m., when 18-year-old Ryan Munn and two other assailants came up to him.
Antonio Martinez, a machinist at the CTA's heavy maintenance facility in Skokie, had worked for the agency for 14 years, according to a statement.
To protect passengers from COVID-19, which can live on surfaces, all CTA trains, buses and facilities are being cleaned. And while the CTA said its cleaning methods are some of the most rigorous in the nation, CBS 2 found New York, which does similar cleaning, has now added an additional step with its metropolitan transportation office buildings and subway trains.
While the amount of federal funding coming to the city has yet to be finalized, the mayor's financial team said it's highly likely Chicago will need additional assistance from Congress, due to the economic toll the pandemic has taken.
Fare card readers also will be moved to the rear doors of buses. If a bus does not have a fare card reader at the rear door, passengers won't have to pay their fare.
Two people were injured in an accidental shooting near the Belmont CTA station Thursday morning.
We now know the identity of the man who died after he was pushed into the path of a CTA train this week.
A man is dead after being pushed in front of an oncoming train on the Red Line subway downtown late Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The Chicago Transit Authority told CBS 2 that overall ridership is down 82 percent – a drop from 68 percent overall ridership two weeks ago – in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a CTA bus and two others vehicles.
A CTA bus driver was attacked near 94th and Ashland.
While social distancing rules forbid groups of 10 or more, drivers cannot pass up passengers just because there are more than 10 people on a bus.
Two Chicago Transit Authority employees – a bus driver and a train operator – have tested positive for coronavirus.
Two men fired guns at each other on a CTA Red Line train at 79th Street Tuesday afternoon.
As more workers in Indiana and Illinois work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, mass transit agencies are offering a variety of refunds and incentives for commuters.
