CTA State/Lake station closes in January for 3 years
The elevated State/Lake CTA station will officially close on January 5, 2026, to be demolished and reconstructed over three years, the city said Thursday.
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The elevated State/Lake CTA station will officially close on January 5, 2026, to be demolished and reconstructed over three years, the city said Thursday.
A new partnership with the Cook County Clerk's Office will also streamline the process of getting necessary documents.
This comes as the Transportation Security Administration announced a new $45 penalty fee next year for those who are still without it.
A fire triggered alarms at multiple buildings in downtown Chicago over the weekend.
Separately, a fire forced residents from an apartment building in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.
CBS Chicago aired the parade live on television and on the CBS News Chicago streaming channel.
The parade moved along State Street between Lake and Van Buren streets. Darius Johnson reports.
A Chicago youth basketball program on Wednesday mourned the death of one of their own; a 14-year-old boy shot and killed last week in the Loop.
CBS Chicago will be airing the Chicago Thanksgiving Parade as it steps off downtown on Thursday.
Chicago police released a photo of a person of interest wanted in the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Armani Floyd in the Loop on Friday night.
Three teens were among a group charged in connection with a deadly stabbing that took place in The Loop on Sunday.
A new reward is being offered for information to help find the shooter who killed a 14-year-old boy Friday night in the Loop, in the first of two shootings downtown, which left one teen dead and eight others wounded.
Dozens, including the father, a violence prevention advocate, and siblings of 14-year-old Armani Floyd, were in the South Shore neighborhood on Monday evening to grieve the tragic loss.
Six people were in custody Monday afternoon, after a homeless man was stabbed to death in the Loop in downtown Chicago on Sunday morning.
On Monday, the Youth Peace and Justice Foundation – a Texas-based nonprofit – offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the death of 14-year-old Armani Floyd, who was killed in the second of those two shootings.
Police said, around 7:20 a.m. Sunday, an unidentified man was found unresponsive in the 200 block of South Wabash Avenue, with a puncture wound to his upper body.
A man is dead after being found with a puncture wound to his body in downtown Chicago Sunday morning.
No one was in custody Sunday morning in connection with either of the shootings that transpired Friday night in the Loop.
Despite the shootings, that has not stopped people from going to the parade and fireworks show.
Chicago police said on top of 700 extra police brought in to support district one officers, 300 more were brought in to staff the event Saturday evening, following Friday night's shooting that left one teen dead and others wounded.
The shootings took place on a bustling night, with huge crowds packing downtown Chicago for the Christmas tree lighting and the first night of Christkindlmarket.
The shooting happened just hours after Chicago lit the city's official Christmas tree just blocks away in Millennium Park.
Police said a person was taken into custody after the attack. They did not reveal his identity, motive, or mental state.
A serial attacker who punched women across the city of Chicago has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
In what is known as America's Sweetest Race, runners took to Chicago's streets Sunday for the Skechers Hot Chocolate Run.
