Lawrence Reed, 50, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery against a transit employee on a CTA Blue Line between ...

The man who is charged with terrorism for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a CTA Blue Line train has now been indicted ...

For the first time in six years, the Operation North Pole train for seriously and terminally ill children and their families ...

The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless the city tightens ...

Passengers say the journey on Amtrak's Southwest Chief is worth it: no TSA lines, ground-level scenery spanning deserts and ...

Prepare for three years of noise, traffic and detours.

Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and ...

The phrase “Where’s the Beef” originated from a Wendy’s commercial in 1984 and quickly became a “cultural catchphrase” used ...

THE ROAD TO THE CHICAGO TRAIN FIRE ATTACK. On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government ...

A 26-year-old woman who was set on fire allegedly by a career criminal in Chicago is being described by friends and neighbors as a kind and hardworking individual from a close-knit, small-town family.

The Nov. 17 train attack left the young woman with “severe burns to her face and body," federal authorities said Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His ...

Screengrab of surveillance footage included in a federal complaint that prosecutors say shows Lawrence Reed on a Chicago Blue Line train holding a lit bottle, Nov. 17, 2025. (Photo: U.S. Attorney's ...