Chicago Transit Authority

Activists said that they stand in solidarity with CTA unions calling for safer working conditions as they negotiate a new contract. They are asking unions to stand with them in their calls to have Van Dyke face federal civil rights charges.

The robber threatened the victim with a handgun and took her money and her cell phone.

A seemingly routine pass-through of funds from the city to the CTA turned into a massive gripe session Wednesday, with City Council members unloading on the transit agency, then holding up the transfer.

A CTA rider was stabbed in the head on a Red Line train Wednesday night on the South Side.

Four people were stabbed in two separate incidents overnight on CTA platforms in the Loop.

Activists are calling for a CTA shutdown to protest the possible release of the former Chicago police officer convicted of killing Laquan McDonald.

Police released images Thursday of two people wanted for robbing and attacking Red Line passengers in the Loop this week.

The two suspects approached the victims on the train and forcibly took one victim's purse and physically attacked another victim.

Three teenagers robbed a 49-year-old man at gunpoint on the CTA Red Line Thursday morning, police said. 

An 18-year-old man was found shot Monday night on a CTA Red Line train in Chicago.

The bus was stopped at a bus stop when the woman slammed into the back of it.

Chicago police said that Maurice Lowry, 28, got on a bus on the South Side last Wednesday and demanded the 64-year-old driver take him to an off-route location.

An expressway shooting involving a CTA bus driver occurred late Saturday night, according to Illinois State Police. 

The CTA union says that almost 400 drivers have been attacked this year. The CTA said that 38 assaults have led to hospitalizations this year.

CTA bus drivers say they are tired of being punching bags while doing their job, and are planning a march Saturday to demand more protection.