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Despite temperatures dropping into the 30s for each of the past four nights, CTA officials don't plan on turning on heaters at train stations for another couple weeks, meaning commuters could face some very chilly commutes until November.
The mid-October cold snap in Chicago this year feels more like late December weather, but 'L' train riders may find some comfort when trying to hit those metal heater buttons.
An aging CTA terminal will soon be getting a facelift. The Jefferson Park Transit Center, built almost 50 years ago, will be modernized, upgraded, and fixed.
"This grant funding will ensure the CTA's aging infrastructure can keep pace with the growing demand for its services."
Bus drivers say they are fed up with being attacked while on the job, but CTA says what happened Wednesday morning is rare.
A woman was sexually assaulted on a CTA Blue Line train around 10 a.m. Monday.
For the rest of the school year, elementary and high school students can ride for 75 cents.
Police arrested two robbery suspects Wednesday morning, after officers chased them across the CTA Blue Line tracks on the Eisenhower Expressway.
A 32-year-old man has been charged in the stabbing of a woman at the 95th Street CTA Red Line Station.
Charges are pending against a male offender who stabbed a 25-year-old woman at the 95th Street CTA Station Saturday morning.
Here's an overview of the Chicago Transit Authority, both its history and its present-day status as the second largest public transportation system in the United States.
Event organizers have cooling stations around the park and hydration stations as well.
Chicago firefighters quickly put out the flames, but the incident halted trains on the CTA Pink, Green, and Blue lines for a couple of hours while crews checked the tracks.
A woman was struck and killed by a CTA train Sunday night at the Cicero Green Line stop on Chicago's west side, police said.
While in China, Emanuel will visit the Chinese company that has a $1.3 billion contract to build CTA train cars at a factory in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago.
It's all part of the CTA's Safe and Secure program which will add a total of 1,000 new cameras.
Service on the CTA Red Line was suspended Friday afternoon when a woman jumped onto the tracks.
Yellow Line trains were halted for about two hours Friday morning, due to flooding in the northern suburbs.
A Chicago resident has started an online petition asking Metra and the Chicago Transit Authority to install calming blue lights at all train stations as a way to prevent train suicides.
The woman suffered serious injuries and may lose her eyesight.
Police describe the attack as brutal, vicious and unprovoked.
Investigators say a man punched a female senior citizen on a Howard-bound Red Line train near the Jarvis station on Thursday, causing a serious eye injury.
Police said the 30-year-old man was standing on the Garfield Red Line platform around 2 p.m. when he was shot in the shoulder.
Police are warning CTA riders after a series of robberies in the Loop.
Police have arrested a man who is of pushing a woman off the Belmont Red Line platform onto the tracks.
