A major drug and firearm investigation in one Chicago neighborhood leads to federal charges against seven people. Here's what ...

There was a large police response right in front of ABC7 Chicago's State Street studio. The situation happened just before 5 p.m. at the CTA Red Line train stop at State and Lake. ABC7 Chicago is now ...

A man died after a fight on a CTA platform in Chicago; a suspect has been detained. Concerns over public transit safety are ...

A 56-year-old man died late Friday night after a fight on Chicago's Clark/Lake CTA platform. Police say he suffered serious ...

Summer reading, if you ask me, should meander, without a plan. Pick up, put down, misplace, leave crusty with sand or warped ...

Four people robbed a victim at gunpoint on or near the CTA Green Line in East Garfield Park. The robbery happened around 4:30 p.m. April 11 in the 2800 block of West Lake Street. Police released ...

In recent years Chicago police and the CTA have sent more officers, unarmed security guards and K-9 teams to the train system in an attempt to bring the crime rate down, causing the CTA to project ...

In February, slow zones covered some 30% of the rail system, up from 13% five years earlier. It’s one more hurdle for the CTA to overcome.

According to NeighborhoodScout, the violent crime rate for Chicago is 5.99 per 1,000 people, and the chances of becoming a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 167.

For example, in the first half of 2019, 2.5 violent crimes were reported per million rides, a September Tribune analysis of CTA ridership and city crime data showed.

The altercation comes as CTA leadership has grappled in recent months with the best way to address stubbornly high rates of violent crime. Though the incident was not immediately reported by ...

For most of 2022, as pandemic-era ridership remained low and CTA violent crime reached its highest levels of the past decade, CPD’s transit units hovered between 138 and 148 cops.