CTA ‘L’ detours set for this weekend
Red Line and Brown Line train service will be altered this weekend as CTA crews work to eliminate slow zones on Chicago’s North Side, the transit agency announced Thursday.
From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, southbound Red and Brown Line trains will stop on the northbound Red Line side of the Fullerton station platform. Riders on northbound Red Line trains will board and exit trains on the northbound Brown Line side of the Fullerton station.
Additionally, southbound Brown Line trains will not stop at the Wellington station during the construction work. Southbound travelers are advised to exit trains at Fullerton and take a northbound train to Wellington.
The No. 76 Diversey bus also will be rerouted because of street construction work this weekend, running in both directions on Fullerton Avenue rather than Diversey Avenue between Sheffield Avenue and Halsted Street between 5:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Police seek gunman in shooting on CTA bus
Police on Thursday were searching for a gunman who shot and wounded a man in a fight on a crowded CTA bus on Chicago’s South Side. The shooting occurred about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday aboard a No. 111 Pullman bus that was southbound near 98th Street, police said. Surveillance cameras on the bus showed a fight and a group of males trying to get another male out the rear door.
Report: Death penalty system still flawed despite reforms
Despite modest reforms introduced over the past several years, the Illinois death penalty system remains flawed, too expensive and arbitrarily implemented, says a new report from the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. But the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, which prosecutes about 80 percent of the state’s death penalty cases, said that arbitrary outcomes are the result of different judges and juries, not faulty screening.
Driver charged with DUI on Near North Side
A South Loop man was charged with drunken driving and traffic offenses Thursday after police said he struck a man who was getting out of a taxicab on the Near North Side and then sped from the scene. Jose Castaneda, 25, was driving in the 1500 block of North Kingsbury Street when he sideswiped a cab and struck the man who had just gotten out about 2:20 a.m., police said.
