Two Charged In Armed Robbery At Metra Station In Harvey
Demareea Lindsey, 18, of Park Forest; and a 15-year-old Park Forest boy were each charged with aggravated robbery, according to Metra.
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Demareea Lindsey, 18, of Park Forest; and a 15-year-old Park Forest boy were each charged with aggravated robbery, according to Metra.
A body was found near Metra tracks Wednesday morning in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, halting Rock Island District trains.
Metra cancels plans to replace its oldest bi-levels with new commuter rail cars, after the ongoing budgetary standoff in Springfield and lack of a statewide capital construction program. Riders are still expected to get a handful of new cars.
One person was killed Monday morning, when a Metra train hit an SUV in southwest suburban Oak Lawn, halting operations on the Southwest Service line for about two hours.
The CTA and Metra will add trains this weekend to accommodate thousands of passengers headed for Lollapalooza in Grant Park.
Just after 5 a.m., trains in both directions were halted at State Street near 121st Street because of a tree that fell across the tracks, according to Metra.
Metra safety was the topic of conversation in Buffalo Grove on Thursday, after a new report ranked Illinois third in the nation for train crashes.
The pedestrian was struck by a train near the Kensington station at 115th and Front streets about 8:30 a.m., according to Metra and fire officials.
Kids can ride Metra trains for free with their families Memorial Day through Labor day as part of an expanded Family Fares program.
BNSF Train No. 1252, running express from Aurora and scheduled to arrive at Union Station at 8:34 a.m., struck a pedestrian near the Downers Grove Main Street station just after 8 a.m., according to Metra spokeswoman Meg Thomas-Reile. The DuPage County coroner's office confirmed the pedestrian was killed
David D. Rasinski, 23, of Streamwood tried to pay his fare by using his cellphone to display a fake ticket on the Milwaukee West Line, according to a statement from Metra.
Security cameras are standard equipment aboard CTA trains and buses. Now, Metra is taking a first step to equip its fleet.
The six full-time officers in the unit will ride in both uniform and plain clothes on all of Metra's 11 lines, according to a statement from the rail service.
The family of a missing British man say his body was found on top of an old, retired Metra car in a repair yard in the Pullman neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
The commuter rail agency Friday retires the last of the bi-level Highliners built without toilets in the early 1970s for the Illinois Central R.R., which then operated the Electric District.
Metra posted a service alert to its website at 3:21 a.m. to announce that the signal bungalow damaged in Tuesday's fire had been repaired and all scheduled trains would operate on the UP/West Line Thursday.
Thousands of Metra commuters were facing a second day of delays on Wednesday, as the transit agency works to repair damage from a fire caused by an electrical shortage.
A fire erupted Tuesday at a railroad facility in west suburban Melrose Park and the fallout could delay some Metra Union Pacific/West trains until Thursday.
Train No. 1206, scheduled to depart Fairview at 5:45 a.m. and arrive in Chicago at 6:35 a.m., derailed just east of Naperville, according to Metra.
Inbound train No. 646, scheduled to arrive in Chicago at 3:23 p.m., was halted about 2:30 p.m. after striking the vehicle near Euclid Avenue near the Arlington Heights station.
A woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries when her SUV was struck by a Metra train Wednesday morning in southwest suburban Hometown, near the Chicago border.
Metra calls itself "The way to really" fly, but it will not be the place for tech geeks to "hover." The rail agency announced Friday that hoverboards will no longer be permitted on trains "due to concerns over potential fire hazards," a statement from Metra said.
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.
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