Two In Custody After Car Hits CTA Pink Line Train In Cicero
A driver was injured early Thursday when a car struck a Pink Line train after driving around warning gates in west suburban Cicero.
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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.
Service was suspended about 4 a.m. between Polk and the Loop because of signal problems near the Ashland/Lake station.
Investigators have released surveillance images of the girl, and were asking for help identifying her.
A signal problem near the Clark/Lake station has disrupted or delayed service on the Brown, Pink, Orange, Green and Purple lines.
The boys, ages 18 and 17, were riding the train when the older boy was approached by five male suspects, according to Chicago Police. They battered him and demanded his property.
Police spent about several hours negotiating with the man after he was seen running along the tracks on Lake Street between Aberdeen and Morgan streets around 2:30 a.m.
Police were called about 2:30 a.m. for reports of the man running back and forth on the tracks between Morgan and Carpenter, according to Chicago Police.
The most recent fatal shooting happened early Monday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
As of about 4:30 a.m., trains were operating about every 15 minutes between the 54th/Cermak and Polk stations, but then being rerouted to Racine on the Blue Line for connecting service to and from downtown, according to the CTA. The signal problems were first reported shortly after 7 p.m. Monday.
The woman, thought to be in her 30s, jumped in front of the train about 8:40 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
About 10:05 a.m., the 21-year-old man was stabbed in the chest, back and abdomen when a group of people got into a fight in the 2000 block of South California, according to Chicago Police.
Service on the CTA Pink Line was returning to normal Tuesday morning, after trains were halted on a two-mile stretch of the route for more than seven hours, due to flooding on the tracks.
A 39-year-old woman has been charged with filing a false police report, after allegedly lying about being attacked and kidnapped outside a CTA train station on the West Side.
The purported victim told police she was hit in the head by a man around 8:45 a.m. Saturday outside the Pink Line Pulaski station. She said she had been dragged into an abandoned building and kept there for three days.
Police were warning residents in the North Lawndale neighborhood, after a woman was kidnapped near a CTA station in broad daylight, and held captive for three days.
Service on the 'L' tracks in the Loop was back to normal Monday afternoon, after a major headache during the morning commute forced the CTA to reroute three train lines, and riders were delayed as long as 90 minutes.
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Service was disrupted between Pulaski and 54th/Cermak for a little more than an hour.
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The Chicago Police have released photos of a suspect involved in at least two robberies on the Pink Line.
Service on the CTA's Pink Line has been suspended between the 54th/Cermak and Polk stations because of the fire, which is near CTA property between California and Western avenues.
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