Police search for 2 men in robbery at Red Line platform along Dan Ryan Expressway
Police on Monday were seeking help from the public in finding two suspects in a robbery on a CTA Red Line platform along the Dan Ryan Expressway last week.
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Police on Monday were seeking help from the public in finding two suspects in a robbery on a CTA Red Line platform along the Dan Ryan Expressway last week.
Chicago police are looking for a person who attacked a 56-year-old man on a CTA Red Line platform early Friday in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
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Chicago police on Wednesday were searching for seven people in connection with an armed robbery at the Thorndale CTA Red Line stop earlier this month.
Chicago police said the suspect spat on two people and then spat at a third before battering them on April 15.
Chicago police are asking for the public's help with identifying a man they said spat on two passengers and battered a third at a CTA Red Line stop on the Near North Side earlier this month.
Chicago police on Monday were asking for help from the public in finding two suspects in a robbery on the CTA Red Line on Chicago's South Side earlier this month.
The Chicago Transit Authority broke ground on Friday to extend the Red Line, after decades of promises to stretch the CTA's busiest rail line further south, and concerns that the federal government could cut off vital funding for the project.
The long-anticipated CTA Red Line Extension breaks ground Friday after a long period in limbo after the Trump Administration froze approximately $2 billion in funding, until a judge ordered it be released.
In just a few hours the CTA is breaking ground to extend the Red Line.
A CTA train derailed Thursday evening near the Howard terminal in the Rogers Park neighborhood, disrupting service on the Red, Purple, and Yellow lines for several hours.
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A commute downtown to work for one woman left her fuming and fighting off her attacker after getting assaulted on a CTA train on Tuesday morning.
At one point, a man can be seen in the video leaning on the chains of the last train car, and it's the only thing holding him up as the train moves down the track.
While some people filmed the incident, CTA said people should have called the police or alerted the train conductor when a man decided to put his life at risk
Federal funding for the CTA Red Line extension project is expected to resume Friday after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release more than $2 billion in grants.
Two men were stabbed in the neck during fight on a CTA Red Line train early Wednesday morning.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily unfreeze approximately $2 billion in funding for the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line Extension and Red & Purple Line Modernization projects.
Residents on the Far South Side of Chicago on Thursday were able to learn and ask questions about the long-awaited extension of the CTA Red Line.
Two men were hospitalized early Sunday after a quarrel turned into a shootout on the 79th Street Red Line platform along the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Two men were hospitalized early Sunday after a quarrel turned into a shootout on the 79th Street Red Line platform along the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Police said the victims were approached by the suspect, who allegedly participated with others in taking one person's belongings, and tried to rob another minutes apart.
Two men stood charged Sunday with robbing a 16-year-old boy on a CTA Red Line train on the city's South Side last week.
Two men stood charged Sunday with robbing a 16-year-old boy on a CTA Red Line train on the city’s South Side last week.
Chicago police said the two men took the victim's belongings by force in the Jan. 27 robbery.
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