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Six months ago, Stephen Helmer set out with his wife, daughter and toddler grandchildren to go sightseeing downtown, grab lunch and meet a friend. They never made it. About 10 minutes into their CTA ...

A federal investigation into a CTA Yellow Line crash has found the transit agency disabled one automatic braking feature on the popular model of railcar involved, contributing to the 2023 collision.

Humdia Ahmad heard a loud thud on the Yellow Line train she was riding and was violently flung forward. Up until that moment Thursday morning, her commute to school at DePaul University had been ...

SKOKIE, Ill. — After a nearly two-month disruption, the “Skokie Swift” is back on its tracks, albeit a little less swift. Seven weeks after a CTA Yellow Line train crashed into a piece of snow-removal ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Concerns over safety aboard CTA trains remain, days after a Yellow Line train crashed into a snow plow on the tracks in Rogers Park, injuring dozens. Federal investigators have since ...

NBC 5 investigates has more insight into what happened in the moments before the CTA Yellow line train crash and derailment Thursday morning. NBC 5 obtained audio of the CTA traffic control tower ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. CHICAGO (CBS) -- The driver of a CTA Yellow Line train tried to stop ...