Search on for man who snatched necklace from woman on CTA Pink Line
The train had just pulled into a station at the time, police said. Police did not specify which station.
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The train had just pulled into a station at the time, police said. Police did not specify which station.
The theft happened at an unspecified stop on the Pink Line.
The CTA employee said he also cannot go to work to do his dream job of fixing buses while he is injured. Sabrina Franza reports.
The attacker struck on a Chicago Transit Authority Pink Line train at the Polk Street stop in the Illinois Medical District.
The victim was on the Pink Line platform when she was approached by the suspect who forcefully took a cell phone from her hand.
The man sat across from the minor when he placed his hand inside his pants and stroked himself while staring at the victim with is cellphone pointed in her direction, police said.
He then looked at several passengers, telling them they had until the Cicero Avenue station to leave or he was going to blow up the train car.
Four different people were held up at gunpoint on CTA ‘L’ trains and platforms in three separate incidents Friday morning. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
Police issued a community alert this weekend after a woman had her cellphone stolen by a group of men on the CTA Pink Line in Lawndale and was then sexually assaulted in an alley.
CTA said trains are moving and normal service is being restored.
Police on Sunday were searching for multiple suspects in a robbery on the CTA Pink Line in Pilsen last week.
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Police this weekend were looking for three men who have been robbing Chicago Transit Authority train riders in Lawndale.
The CTA Pink Line was halted near the Cicero stop Thursday evening after a train collided with a vehicle.
A teen was recovering Thursday after a robbery on a Chicago Transit Authority train turned violent.
Chicago police are searching for a male suspect who sexually abused a girl at the Western Pink Line platform Monday morning.
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Service on the Green and Pink lines was delayed Thursday afternoon, as officials respond to a medical emergency on the elevated tracks in the Fulton River District neighborhood on the Near West Side.
According to the CTA, Cicero resident Maria Torres attempted to cross the tracks near 22nd and Cicero Ave. when the incident occurred.
A driver was injured early Thursday when a car struck a Pink Line train after driving around warning gates in west suburban Cicero.
Two people were taken to a hospital Wednesday afternoon after a car crashed into a CTA Pink Line station in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Just before 2 a.m., he touched the third rail and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Chicago Police.
A 16-year-old girl has been charged with robbing two women on CTA trains earlier this month, spraying one of the victims with pepper spray.
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