Old Ashland Bridge Moved To Western Avenue
After a slow trek along North Avenue this morning a 100-year-old bridge is in place.
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After a slow trek along North Avenue this morning a 100-year-old bridge is in place.
It's not every day you see a bridge being hauled down city streets. On Saturday, a bridge that once spanned Ashland Avenue in the Wicker Park neighborhood will make a 1.5-mile trek to its new home over Western Avenue along the Bloomingdale Trail.
About 3 p.m., a 63-year-old man was struck by an dark gray "older model" Nissan Rogue that was driving in reverse in a parking lot in the 4800 block of North Western Avenue.
The $492 million "Your New Blue" project begins with suspension of Blue Line service between the Logan Square and Western Avenue stations from 10 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday.
Eric Carney, 22, of the 4800 block of South Chicago Beach Drive, was charged in connection with the robbery that happened about 6:10 a.m. Sunday after a train arrived at the Western Blue Line station at 1909 N. Western Ave.
Police have arrested a suspect in a pair of early morning robberies at a Blue Line station in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Police spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said the body was found about 2 p.m. in the forest preserve, along the 8900 block of Western Avenue.
Jose Andrade, 46, was found with multiple stab wounds in his home in the 4100 block of North Western Avenue on Wednesday evening.
Police said the crash happened at 10:20 a.m., near the intersection of 15th Street and Western Avenue. The bus was involved in a crash with a pickup truck and a semi-trailer truck.
Nine people were hurt late Wednesday morning, when a CTA bus and a pickup truck crashed in the Wicker Park neighborhood.
A man and a teenage boy were wounded during a drive-by shooting on the Near West Side late Monday night.
A 28-year-old man has been charged with grabbing a woman at a bus stop in the Ukrainian Village, and raping her in a nearby alley.
Police were warning women in a trendy North Side neighborhood to take extra precautions, after a woman was brutally attacked while waiting for a bus.
A 62-year-old man was shot inside a Logan Square store Tuesday afternoon after struggling with a male who had just robbed the business.
The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. near 31st Street and Western Avenue.
Three people are dead and at least five people have been wounded in gun violence in the city late Friday through early Sunday, police said.
A man driving in the North Side Roscoe Village neighborhood Saturday morning was wounded when someone in another vehicle shot him.
Two teenage boys were wounded in separate shootings Friday evening on the West Side.
An 86-year-old man is dead and a woman was critically injured after being struck by a SUV Friday in the North Side Lincoln Square neighborhood.
A motorist struck two high school students as they left Lane Tech High School on the North Side Monday night. One of the two girls hurt was hospitalized in critical condition.
A Southwest Side woman wants others to know what happened to her a week ago.
Two men were killed and seven others – including three boys just 14 years old – were wounded in shootings in Chicago within a period of eight hours Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
Eight people were injured in a bus crash late Monday morning in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Five people – three of them children – were injured Saturday afternoon in the Gage Park neighborhood.
A man is dead after being struck and killed by a vehicle early Saturday, along busy Western Avenue in the Lincoln Square neighborhood.
