Today’s Headlines for Monday, October “5
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• CPD: 2 women and a man began altercation with woman, 31, on Loop Red platform, boarded SB train with her, battered and robbed her, on 9/26 around 2:22 AM (Fox)
• “Woman charged in CTA Red Line attack at Clark/Division that broke passenger’s ribs” (CBS)
• “Chicago police release photos of suspect in Englewood CTA bus shooting that injured 2, 1 critically” (ABC)
• “CTA’s Red Line Extension Project Opens New Community Office in Roseland”
• An Eisenhower-era sign for an ‘L’ stop in the Eisenhower Expressway: “CTA Unveils 1950s Neon-Style Sign At Revamped Racine Blue Line Stop” (Block Club)
• Transportation wonks unite: Chicago welcomes 12,000 public transit pros to Blockbuster expo (Daily Herald)
• “Stadler, Metra to present new battery-electric FLIRT at APTA EXPO 2026” (Mass Transit)
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