Wanted: Woman Who Brought Alligator On Chicago Blue Line Train

By Chuck Sudo in News on Nov 13, 2013 3:20PM

Image courtesy CTA.

Chicago Transit Authority released security camera footage of a woman who brought a 2-foot alligator on board a blue line train bound for O’Hare Airport. The woman is believed to have left the alligator at O’Hare International Airport.

CTA Security personnel, with the help of the Chicago Police Department, followed up on a social media tip to find the woman who boarded the Blue Line Train at Pulaski at 1:17 a.m. on Nov. 1 with the alligator in hand. Rail car cameras showed the woman holding the gator and displaying it to her fellow passengers. She was later seen exiting the train at O’Hare at 2:17 a.m. with the alligator and boarded a southbound Blue Line train at 2:44 a.m. (We won’t discuss the fact it took an hour to travel from Pulaski and Irving Park Road to O’Hare by train.)

Unlike Stonehenge or other unsolved mysteries, we now have a timeline as to how the alligator arrived at O’Hare. The alligator was in poor health, is now under the care of the Chicago Herpetological Society and will be transported to an out-of-state animal farm once it recovers. The incident makes us wonder about the health of the woman who transported the alligator to O’Hare. It’s also a reminder that the CTA, with over 3,600 cameras in its rail system, always has an eye on you.

Anyone with information to help identify the woman should contact CTA’s Customer Service 1-888-YOUR-CTA (1-888-968-7282) or feedback@transitchicago.com.

Image courtesy CTA.