12 injured in CTA crash
Several people were injured Friday when a CTA bus crashed into a building on the South Side, officials said. The bus was traveling north on Ashland Avenue near 76th Street when it veered off the road and slammed into a light pole, a fire hydrant and then the building, said Sheila Gregory, a CTA spokeswoman. She said the building is thought to be abandoned. Twelve people, including bus passengers and the driver, were in stable or good condition at area hospitals, officials said.
Children’s Museum tweaks design
In an effort to comply with long-standing restrictions barring buildings in Grant Park, the Chicago Children’s Museum has once again changed its designs for a proposed location in the northeast end of the park. To lower the project’s physical profile, the museum, which is seeking to move from Navy Pier to Grant Park, has ditched the 16-foot skylight structures it was planning to build in the park and has relocated a glassy entry pavilion onto a nearby sidewalk area so it no longer is on park property, said Grant Park Conservancy President Bob O’Neill.
Linens ‘n Things closes stores
Bedding- and home-furnishing retailer Linens ‘n Things on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It plans to close four Illinois stores: on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Palatine, Skokie and Schaumburg.
3 hurt in crash
Three people were hurt, two of them seriously, in a three-vehicle crash Friday morning on the North Side. Two small trucks and a van, collided in the 1600 block of North Clark Street around 9:40 a.m., said Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez. No passengers were in the van, said Pace spokesman Patrick Wilmot.
