Metra Police Sergeant Stabbed While Breaking Up Fight
A sergeant with the Metra police department was stabbed in the leg several times Saturday evening after he tried to break up a fight between at least two people at Union Station, officials said.
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A sergeant with the Metra police department was stabbed in the leg several times Saturday evening after he tried to break up a fight between at least two people at Union Station, officials said.
Sources say the agents were carrying hand-held nuclear-detection devices that picked up a reading. CBS 2's Dave Savini reports.
A Metra train struck an 11-year-old boy Friday evening in northwest suburban Barrington.
Robert O'Leary, 50, was charged with nine counts of felony aggravated battery and one count of misdemeanor aggravated assault for the Dec. 21 incident at the Lake Forest Metra station.
The Metra board is being asked to approve $800,000 to draw up plans to replace the 95th Street/Chicago State University stop, and $560,000 to renovate the Racine Avenue station on the Electric District's Blue Island branch.
Metra staff are getting unexpected pushback from some of the commuter rail agency's board members over proposals to sell the naming rights to its stations and trains.
Starting this coming Monday, Metra will be giving away free tickets to try to get more people to try the commuter rail line.
Passengers on a Metra train headed to Chicago on Friday morning got downtown about 80 minutes late because the train's doors would not close after a stop at the Naperville station.
For the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, some ministers were catering to commuters, by placing ashes on their foreheads as they waited for their trains.
Thirteen minutes. That's how long a door aboard a moving Metra train stayed open Tuesday evening before a conductor discovered the problem.
A freight train derailment Sunday is causing delays for Metra Union Pacific trains in west suburban Bellwood.
A Metra train struck and killed a north suburban man Saturday night in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood.
There was a time when you could hop on a train at certain North Side 'L' stations, sit down in a tavern-lounge car, order a drink and eat a freshly-cooked hamburger as you rode to Milwaukee at up to 90 miles an hour.
The Regional Transportation Authority is taking United Airlines to court.
Metra Board Chairman Brad O'Halloran said the defibrillators will be installed on about 300 Metra train cars.
Wheels on the second and third cars of a northbound Metra train left the tracks, but all of the cars remain upright near 155 N. Canal St., just north of the Ogilvie Transportation Center. The train appeared to be pulling at least six cars.
The cost of traveling into Chicago will jump next year — be it by bus, rail or car.
A new analysis shows that Chicago-area railroad crossings remain dangerous.
Metra's new chairman wants to give the commuter rail agency's board the power to hire top employees, but some on its board see it as a patronage grab.
A Metra train fatally struck a man Friday night in north suburban Morton Grove.
Metra trains are moving again on the Union Pacific North line after being halted Wednesday evening when a pedestrian was fatally struck near the Rogers Park station.
A reminder: Medical marijuana is illegal in Illinois. And that's what police say landed two Chicago men in the DuPage County jail.
Despite a looming 11 percent fare increase for 10-ride ticketholders, few riders bothered to turn out for Metra's only public hearings on its 2013 budget.
Two people inside a vehicle struck by a Metra train Monday evening on the South Side were hospitalized -- one in critical condition.
A new study by DePaul University advises at least $2 billion a year in spending is needed for the Chicago area's mass transit system, to avoid a meltdown of the aging network.
