Transportation
Coverage of the CTA and Chicago-area transportation issues, from Metra to the Chicago L to rush-hour updates.
The Democratic National Convention takes place Aug. 19-22, but street closings and public transit detours begin days earlier — and the sprucing up is already underway. “It’s b—----- because it took [the convention] for them to fix it up,” said Henry Horner Homes resident Tracy Johnson of the improvements.
The girl was crossing the street with two women in the 9500 block of South Paxton Avenue about 8:40 p.m. July 18 when the driver drove through a red light and struck her. The girl was injured.
State troopers responded to a rollover crash early Wednesday in the eastbound lanes of the Eisenhower just east of the Tri-State Tollway, Illinois State police said.
It’s the most tornadoes recorded in the Chicago area in a single storm, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists blame conditions they call a “ring of fire” — a combination of warm, humid air near the ground and cooler air higher in the atmosphere.
‘Next Stop: Chicago’ hopes to draw conventioneers, locals out of downtown with seven installations along the CTA line.
The Wienermobile and a car were both going north on the tollway when the Wienermobile struck the car, lost control and rolled over, Illinois State Police said. No injuries were reported.
El programa Bike Chicago de la Municipalidad comenzó en 2022 con el objetivo de regalar bicicletas a los residentes que tengan problemas para transportarse.
Los problemas también afectaron a algunos servicios de Metra, la venta de entradas en teatros locales y a comercios. La causa del caos fue una actualización defectuosa de CrowdStrike, empresa de seguridad en línea cuyo software se utiliza en todo el mundo en múltiples sectores.
The person, involved in an early morning car accident Monday, was struck at 159th Street, state police said.
Tamia Washington, 18, is charged with robbery. She joins four adolescents — ages 11, 14, 15 and 16 — who are charged with aggravated battery and robbery stemming from the July 8 attack on a man in the Loop.
A sedan didn’t stop at a traffic signal and crashed into the bus, which then hit a building, police said.
The city’s Bike Chicago program began in 2022 with the goal of handing out free bikes to residents with mobility challenges.
The problems also affected some Metra service, ticketing at local theaters and businesses. The culprit behind the mess was a faulty update that was pushed out from CrowdStrike, an online security firm whose software is used around the world across multiple industries.
Monday’s storms knocked down transmission towers and scattered wires across Interstate 55 near Channahon.
The Chicago Tribune Co. — which prints and delivers the Tribune, Sun-Times and other papers — faces delays at its printing facility.
The group battered the 63-year-old and took his belongings aboard an Orange Line train in the Loop, police said.
Improving our infrastructure with revenue from an increase in motor fuel taxes is a good bet, one labor leader writes. Plus, Chicago should get more ‘novelty’ sports events in addition to NASCAR.
The semitruck left the roadway, went down an embankment, then overturned onto Kedzie Avenue in Hazel Crest, according to Illinois State Police.
The city was under a severe thunderstorm watch, and a tornado warning was issued late Sunday and into early Monday. But that’s not the last of the bad weather — another round storms is expected Monday evening.
A 31-year-old motorist rear-ended a semi about 12:50 a.m. Saturday in the southbound lanes of the Stevenson Expressway near Harlem Avenue. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.