Citing police communications, the apparent accident happened around 12:49 a.m. at the Loyola Red Line station, 1200 West Loyola Avenue, in Rogers Park.
According to police dispatch, the injured man fell on the northbound tracks.
At the time of this report, information regarding the commuter's condition wasn't immediately available.
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UPDATE: An officer at the scene said the patient, who was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, was seriously injured.
"It's not looking too good," said the officer.
Investigators believe the incident was an accident.
There sure are a lot of cases of people "falling" onto the tracks...
ReplyDeleteThe Loyola platform is to narrow. The area around the stair well is dangerous.
ReplyDeleteThey're all dangerous. This "world class" public transportation system hasn't been updated or probably even touched since it was built.
ReplyDeleteIt was poorly designed to begin with especially with those stairways that narrow after the 3rd step down so that two average sized people can't even pass. Not to mention the city was set up for a disaster and failure the minute those Red Line tracks were laid along and through the entire lakefront neighborhoods. Seriously, what were they thinking? Just about every where else on earth, the closer you get to the waterfront the real estate values and rental prices are higher. In Chicago, it's the opposite (but so is just about everything else here).
I live around Loyola El and I'm pissed now that school is back in session, criminals from other neighborhoods are hanging around pulling bull$hit scams and trying to prey on the college kids.
ReplyDeleteI got into four fights last week alone, only one of them resulted in an upcoming court date. I will not allow TNB to take place now that the neighborhood is filled with humans again.
The cops usually laugh when I kick somebody's ass because I am so short and it was entertaining.
Watch out for us little guys, we fight until we're hamburger.
I can no longer stand the sight of them, there was a trainful of really ugly old silverbacks on the Shine Line today, they were all eyeing my Iphone and I got off and walked from there.
ReplyDeleteThe Trib is reporting that he died.
ReplyDeleteHe was a Loyola senior who lived just a block away & that alcohol was probably involved.
Ya think?
As soon as I saw what time it happened, I knew he was drunk!
Sure maybe he was drunk which is stupid in the first place but how do you "hit the third rail"? Missing a step and falling off, sure. That third rail isn't very close to the platform. You'd almost have to jump or, yes, be pushed. That's what's peculiar about these "accidents".
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, "no further details on the offenders was given" regarding the prosecuter that got stabbed and "lost alot of blood" at the lakefront in hoity-toity Lincoln Park at 7pm. Supposedly he was trying to thwart a hate crime. Yes, a hate crime. This story got but a blip in MSM.
Robberies alone in particular Lakeview area have jumped 103% according to crime stats but the news seems to be very, very quiet as of late. Too quiet. Eerily quiet. Even CNR. Again, no news is NOT good news.
I attended Loyola in the early 70s. Crime was never an issue in Rogers Park. Rogers Park seemed to be filled with retired Jewish people. Never had the need for security. One could walk down the streets at 2:00 am without any hesitation (or at least myself as a guy). I often came back on the El from night classes downtown at about 9:00 pm, and again never any worry
ReplyDeleteNow I go back there and Loyola, like Marquette in Milwaukee, is forced to put a perimeter around the campus.
Look, blacks are easy to defeat in combat. They get too angry, all you have to do is piss them off worse and they start swinging wild. Just stay calm, do what they taught you in bootcamp, and destroy them.
ReplyDeleteHis name was John and he died from electrocution
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