Blue Line Service Disrupted Due to Bomb Threat

Daley Urges State to Increase CTA Funding... Finally Police are investigating a bomb threat at the Jackson Blue Line stop this afternoon. Trains were not stopping at the Jackson stop, and the surrounding streets were blocked off. The Sun-Times reports that people were being turned away from the station, and the pedway connecting the Jackson Red Line stop has been closed down while the police Bomb and Arson Unit investigates.

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By Samantha Abernethy in News on August 24, 2011 3:30 PM

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snoopoz

I either use the Jackson Red Line stop or the Library Brown Line stop to get to work, but for giggles today I walked through the tunnel to the Jackson Blue Line. The tunnel was not closed - this was about 8:50 am - but there were cops standing at the stairwell when you exited the subway, and Dearborn was blocked off with a police car at Jackson. So, there's been some shenanigans going on there since this morning, at least.