CTA Red Line train evacuated, service halted due to person on tracks
Service on the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line was halted between the 95th/Dan Ryan and Garfield stops. Kris Habermehl has a transit update.
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Service on the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line was halted between the 95th/Dan Ryan and Garfield stops. Kris Habermehl has a transit update.
Service on the CTA Red Line was suspended on much of Chicago's South Side early Tuesday due to an unauthorized person on the tracks. Kris Habermehl has a transit update.
Chicago police are looking to identify two suspects, who they said robbed someone while riding a CTA Red Line train in the Englewood neighborhood on Sept. 6
Chicago police said Shannon Stephens, 23, and Jamarion Gray, 21, robbed the passenger while on a Red Line train early Friday morning.
Shannon Stephens, 23, of Chicago's North Austin neighborhood, and Jamarion Gray, 21, of Hazel Crest, were arrested a block apart shortly after 2 a.m. Friday.
Police said the victim was fighting with another unknown man inside the train car, who pulled out a sharp object and stabbed the victim multiple times in the upper body.
CTA Red Line service was temporarily suspended between Howard to Belmont, and Purple Line trains are running with residual delays.
The Chicago Transit Authority said there was a minor derailment of a Yellow Line/Skokie Swift train at Howard. The cause was unknown, and no injuries were reported.
CTA officials confirmed trains are rerouted to the elevated lines between Fullerton and Cermak-Chinatown.
A death investigation is underway after a man ended up on the CTA tracks in downtown Chicago on Monday morning.
Chicago police said a man walked up to the victim and demanded his belongings at gunpoint, then he shot the victim in the chest.
A CBS News Chicago producer took video of an altercation that broke out on a Red Line train at the North/Clybourn stop Wednesday morning. With no police or security on the train, passengers had to step in to help. Tara Molina reports.
Three people were arrested after a wild brawl Monday evening with a K9 security team on a CTA Red Line platform on the South Side.
Chicago police said two men would approach the passengers, who were waiting for the train, and take cellphones from the victim's hands.
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A man was stabbed on a CTA Red Line train near Chicago's Uptown neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
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Commuters were advised to consider alternatives such as bus routes.
Police said the shooting happened in a train car, but did not immediately provide further information.
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