Blue Line Service Disrupted Due to Bomb Threat

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Aug 24, 2011 8:30PM

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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