Police search for robbers who attacked woman on CTA Red Line along Dan Ryan Expressway
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.
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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.
Chicago Transit Authority Red and Purple Line trains were disrupted during the morning rush Tuesday after a 17-year-old boy was struck and killed by a train in Rogers Park.
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.
Police said the victim, while on the train, was approached by the two suspects, who took the victim's property by force.
Police said the suspect punched the victim and took their belongings before stomping them in the head.
Chicago police on Wednesday issued a community alert about an attack and robbery that spilled from a CTA Red Line train onto a station platform this past weekend.
Shuttle buses were requested from 95th to Garfield to connect the impacted areas.
Chicago police are asking for help identifying a woman who assaulted and robbed a CTA passenger on a Red Line train earlier this month in the Loop.
A man was stabbed on a CTA Red Line train along the Dan Ryan Expressway early Sunday morning.
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