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CHICAGO, Ill. — The Chicago Tribune reported that the Brown and Red line trains are running again but with delays, after a car derailed on the Red Line near Armitage Avenue on Thursday, May 9, halting trains and sending at least one person to the hospital.

A passenger car on the CTA Red Line in Chicago, IL jumped the tracks on May 9 2013. One passenger had to be rescued by the Chicago Fire Department using an elevated bucket.

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CHICAGO, Ill. — Two railroad workers were injured when an Orange Line train derailed early Friday in the Chicago Transit Authority train yard near Midway Airport. The media reports that the train jumped the tracks just before as it was pulling into the rail yard.

Two railroad workers were injured in a CTA Orange Line train derailment in a Chicago, IL rail yard on November 9, 2012. Photo credit: WGN-TV

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The Illinois Central Railroad and the Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Eastern Railroad have been ordered by OSHA to pay three workers a total of $650,729 in back wages and damages for retaliating against them for reporting safety concerns.

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BARTLETT, IL – Twenty-two rail cars jumped the tracks in Bartlett, IL when a northbound Canadian Nation freight train derailed in a fiery crash and then blocked all east and west Metra passenger rail service in the Bartlett-Elgin area.

Fire crews dousing the blaze after a fiery Canadian National freight train derailment in Bartlett, IL where 22 rail cars jumped the tracks, then burst into flames on Thursday November 3, 2011.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, IL – One person was killed in a train accident while driving an SUV through a railway crossing in University Park, IL about 9:42 p.m. Friday evening, April 16, 2010. The fatal train accident happened at the railway crossing just east of the intersection at Stuenkel Rd and Governors Hwy.

Railroad workers from the Canadian National Railway check the signals at the Stuenkel Road crossing Monday following Friday's fatal crash. Photo credit: Joseph P. Meier / SouthtownStar

University Park is in the northern part of Illinois about 40 miles south of Chicago, about 159 miles northeast of Peoria, 187 miles northeast of Springfield, 151 miles northeast of Decatur and about 249 miles northeast of Mount Vernon. ... Read More