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The CTA will offer affected riders other ways to get around during the five-month project.

"I just heard a big boom sound, and then just a huge screech and everyone screaming," one witness said.

CTA spokesman said security plans during Red Line reconstruction are set with current workers.

Commuters can rejoice now that the second nine-day construction period is over.

Police released a photo Wednesday of the suspect in the April 11 "L" car incidents.

Fire personnel responded to the scene but found no one, a spokesman said.

CTA officials could not locate a joyrider who rode atop a moving train Friday evening.

Trains from Fullerton to Cermak-Chinatown were briefly running on the elevated tracks, officials said.

Garfield, Halsted and Ashland/63rd stations will be temporarily expanded, officials said.

Prosecutors said Martez Byrd, 33, was "singing and dancing" before he stabbed a man in Old Town Monday.

Prosecutors said Cameron D. Griggs, 19, and a group of men were involved in a Red Line attack Friday.

The girl was riding a southbound Red Line train to State and Jackson, where she was grabbed, police said.

South Side residents living along South State Street soon will have limited parking and more traffic.  

The closures are expected to cause headaches for Downtown "L" riders.