Editorial: Blue Line horror brings a day of reckoning for the SAFE-T Act and hapless electronic monitoring in Cook County

A young woman set ablaze on the Blue Line wouldn’t have been attacked if the Cook County chief judge’s electronic monitoring ...

Suspect in CTA Blue Line attack has long criminal history; victim's family releases statement

There is new information Thursday about the man charged with lighting a woman on fire on a CTA train earlier this week.

Terror charges in Blue Line fire attack

🔎 Below: Federal authorities say 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, who was arrested at least 40 times, had “no business being on ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson says criminal justice system ‘failed’ in Blue Line fire attack, after describing it as ‘isolated incident’

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday sought to head off concerns about public transit safety in the wake of a man lighting a ...

CTA attack was apparently random, no bystanders attempted to aid victim: Feds

A woman attacked and set on fire aboard a CTA train in the Loop did not engage in an altercation with the suspect prior to ...
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CTA Blue Line Fire Horror: Prosecutor Flagged Risk Before Judge Cut Suspect Loose

Transcripts show prosecutors warned before his release. Reed now faces federal terrorism charges in the Blue Line attack.

Man accused in fiery Blue Line gasoline attack was AWOL from home detention, court records show

Lawrence Reed was in violation of his curfew in a separate, assault case filed in August in Cook County court. He was on electronic monitoring in that case.

CPD searching for suspect who attacked, robbed 18-year-old woman on CTA Red Line

Chicago police issued an alert Thursday, after a woman was attacked on a CTA Red Line Train on the city's South Side last ...