Editor's Note: A person of interest was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. Our latest update can be found here. Our original story continues below. A woman is in critical condition after police ...

Chopper 7 is over the scene near 99th Street and Marquette Avenue.

According to the Chicago news site CWB Chicago, Reed went inside the building, known as the Thompson Center, and asked a worker at a train kiosk where his check was. Reed left and came back about an ...

Amtrak's Borealis route, launched in May 2024, offers a convenient weekend travel option for riders. The route runs from St. Paul to Chicago, with stops in Winona, La Crosse, Wisconsin Dells, ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- An annual holiday favorite for families has been canceled for a second year in a row. The Polar Express train ride will not operate this season because of ongoing street ...

THE ROAD TO THE CHICAGO TRAIN FIRE ATTACK. On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government building in Chicago and set it on fire. The man, identified as Lawrence Reed, ...

A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a Chicago commuter train has a decades long criminal history and was on court-ordered electronic monitoring in an unrelated battery case at the time of ...

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with terrorism for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a Chicago train. According to charging documents filed in the U.S. District Court’s Northern ...

The famous cross-country holiday train, the Canadian Pacific, will make two stops in the Chicago area this season. The Canadian Pacific Kansas City 2025 Holiday Train, in its 27th year, kicked off on ...

U.S. authorities have identified a 26-year-old woman who was doused in fluid and set on fire on a Chicago subway train last week. In a statement on X, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ...