Signal Problems Disrupt CTA Pink Line Service
Service was suspended about 4 a.m. between Polk and the Loop because of signal problems near the Ashland/Lake station.
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Service was suspended about 4 a.m. between Polk and the Loop because of signal problems near the Ashland/Lake station.
Investigators have released surveillance images of the girl, and were asking for help identifying her.
A signal problem near the Clark/Lake station has disrupted or delayed service on the Brown, Pink, Orange, Green and Purple lines.
The boys, ages 18 and 17, were riding the train when the older boy was approached by five male suspects, according to Chicago Police. They battered him and demanded his property.
Police spent about several hours negotiating with the man after he was seen running along the tracks on Lake Street between Aberdeen and Morgan streets around 2:30 a.m.
Police were called about 2:30 a.m. for reports of the man running back and forth on the tracks between Morgan and Carpenter, according to Chicago Police.
The most recent fatal shooting happened early Monday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
As of about 4:30 a.m., trains were operating about every 15 minutes between the 54th/Cermak and Polk stations, but then being rerouted to Racine on the Blue Line for connecting service to and from downtown, according to the CTA. The signal problems were first reported shortly after 7 p.m. Monday.
The woman, thought to be in her 30s, jumped in front of the train about 8:40 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
About 10:05 a.m., the 21-year-old man was stabbed in the chest, back and abdomen when a group of people got into a fight in the 2000 block of South California, according to Chicago Police.
Service on the CTA Pink Line was returning to normal Tuesday morning, after trains were halted on a two-mile stretch of the route for more than seven hours, due to flooding on the tracks.
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The purported victim told police she was hit in the head by a man around 8:45 a.m. Saturday outside the Pink Line Pulaski station. She said she had been dragged into an abandoned building and kept there for three days.
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Service was disrupted between Pulaski and 54th/Cermak for a little more than an hour.
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Service on the CTA's Pink Line has been suspended between the 54th/Cermak and Polk stations because of the fire, which is near CTA property between California and Western avenues.
Problems with switches at one of the busiest rail junctions on the CTA's rapid transit system made a mess out of the homebound commute Friday evening and could mean delays until at least Saturday afternoon on lines that use the Loop L tracks.
Police officers rescued a man who nearly fell off of elevated Pink Line tracks on Thursday, after he walked along the tracks for several blocks, then apparently tried to jump from a concrete bridge abutment.
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CTA's newest 'L' cars will be reintroduced on the Pink Line beginning Sunday, but you will have to look hard to find them.
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Officers forced their way into the residence and found the two women, 30 and 51, unresponsive, along with two unharmed children.
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