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 ...

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A man appeared in court Wednesday after police said he shot at two men in a restricted area of the Chicago Transit Authority subway system in the Loop. Chicago police said at 9:11 a.m. Monday, Rayvon ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 16, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. “Under the circumstances it is natural ...

A woman is in critical condition after she was set on fire while riding the "L" train system in Chicago, police said, and the suspect is still at large. The woman, 26, was riding a Chicago Transit ...

A Chicago man who says he has “subway surfed” numerous times since he was a teenager — surreptitiously climbing atop moving L trains and becoming an open-air commuter, which he often chronicled on ...