Chicago, IL
NYC subway shooting: No threats to CTA following mass shooting; Metra adding ‘additional resources’
“There are not any stories of any threats in opposition to CTA,” Chicago Transit Authority spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski mentioned in a textual content message.
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As a precaution, Metra officers mentioned Tuesday they’ve “deployed extra sources” and urged riders to report something suspicious to Metra police at 312-322-2800 or via the Metra COPS app.
The Chicago Police Division didn’t say if it was rising its presence on the CTA. “Whereas there is no such thing as a actionable intelligence at the moment, CPD will preserve the suitable sources to make sure security on the general public transit system,” a police spokesman mentioned in a press release.
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“We stand with the individuals of New York Metropolis following this despicable act of violence. The Chicago Police Division is carefully monitoring the occasions in New York Metropolis,” the assertion mentioned.
Whereas CTA riders mentioned they sympathize with the victims shot or injured in Brooklyn additionally they empathize, declaring that shootings, together with lethal shootings, on CTA or public transit will not be a brand new phenomenon in Chicago.
CTA trains and buses throughout the town carry 800,000 riders through the week. Tens of 1000’s extra depend on Metra for his or her commute.
“I’ve had a number of telephones stolen the CTA. I’ve had my bag, my knapsack taken out from beneath my head,” mentioned CTA rider LeRoy Pinto.
“I really feel pretty secure on the CTA, I feel they do an excellent job of monitoring it and I really feel like there’s quite a lot of safety in round inside make me really feel safer,” mentioned CTA rider Tory Schneider. “So it is dependent upon the road, however typically sure.”
At the least 16 individuals had been injured, 10 of them by gunfire, in a subway automotive in Brooklyn after a person launched a smoke canister and opened fireplace, New York Metropolis officers mentioned Tuesday morning. The gunman, who wore a development vest, was not in custody.
The Solar-Occasions Media Wire contributed to this report.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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