Crimes On CTA Down Significantly In 2015
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA officials have announced a significant drop in crime for commuters last year.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA officials have announced a significant drop in crime for commuters last year.
A South Side man was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a girl on a CTA platform.
Issues with power and switches caused major problems on the CTA's train lines Thursday morning with some commuters reporting delays of more than an hour.
About 8:30 p.m., the 34-year-old was a passenger on a No. 75 CTA bus traveling east on 75th Street near Martin Luther King Drive when he got into an argument with several people on the bus, according to Chicago Police and CTA spokesman Jeff Tolman.
It happened during a scuffle about 6:15 p.m. at the Western station at 4901 S. Western Ave., according to Chicago Police.
Winter's first bitter blast sent temperatures down to 1 below zero around 6 a.m., with a wind chill as cold as 18 below overnight at O'Hare International Airport.
Three people have been charged with robbing a man on board a CTA Blue Line train early Tuesday morning, Chicago Police announced Wednesday.
Police said a 23-year-old man was sitting on a Blue Line train at the Illinois Medical District station at 400 S. Damen Av., when three men approached him and announced a robbery. One of them implied he had a gun.
CTA riders will not have to pay for trains and buses over the New Year's holiday.
CTA officials said the agency's subway system and elevated trains came through Monday's ice storm with flying colors.
A 26-year-old man has been arrested for robbing and raping a woman near a Red Line station in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Sunday.
The Loop Link along Washington, Madison, Canal and Clinton is aimed at shaving an average of seven-and-a-half minutes of the time of six bus routes.
Chicago Police have released surveillance images of a man wanted for sexually assaulting a woman after she left a Red Line station on the North Side early Saturday morning.
Riders on two CTA bus routes Monday get to welcome back an old friend -- the express bus.
It's billed as a faster way to get around downtown and it starts today.
The transit agency expects the improvements, known as "Loop Link," to result in faster and more evenly-spaced buses.
The 21-year-old man was struck by the train about 9:45 p.m. at the Kedzie station in the 4600 block of North Kedzie Avenue, according to Chicago Police and CTA spokesman Jeff Tolman.
The next stop on the CTA's track improvement program is the Green Line -- in Austin and Oak Park.
About 10:30 p.m., he hit the side of the bus with his hand to try and get it to stop in the 5500 block of West North Avenue, police said. When the bus driver stopped, the man was found on the ground with injuries, police said.
The 20-year-old man was standing outside in the 4700 block of North Kimball Avenue at 5:26 p.m. when someone walked up from an alley and fired shots, according to Chicago Police. The CTA's Kimball Brown Line station is located on the same block.
About 5:26 p.m., the 20-year-old man was shot in the head in the 4700 block of North Kimball Avenue, in the city's Albany Park neighborhood.
The city of Chicago now says a measuring mistake on part of the Loop Link will cost taxpayers $150,000.
The Ventra smart phone app is off to a fast start. By mid-afternoon Thursday, the first day it was available to the general public, more than 20,000 people had downloaded the free app and it was the #3 trending app at The App Store.
CTA Brown Line trains are running normally after lengthy delays caused by a train derailing Thursday morning in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood.
Beginning Dec. 21, the No. X9 Ashland Express and No. X49 Western Express bus routes will run during the morning and afternoon rush periods, according to a statement from the CTA.
