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Federal charges were filed on Wednesday against a man accused of setting a woman on fire on a CTA Blue Line train in downtown Chicago this week. Lawrence Reed, 50, was charged in a criminal complaint ...

Editor's Note: A person of interest was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. Our latest update can be found here. Our original story continues below. A woman is in critical condition after police ...

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A person was in custody on Tuesday after a woman was set on fire while riding a CTA Blue Line in Chicago's Loop the night before. The woman remained in the hospital late Tuesday night. According to ...

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A 26-year-old woman was torched by a madman on a Chicago train Monday night — more than a week after another straphanger was stabbed in the chest at Windy City station, according to police. The ...

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a Chicago train. Lawrence Reed was sitting at the back of a car on a Blue ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is new information Thursday about the man charged with lighting a woman on fire on a CTA train earlier this week. The man has a long history of run-ins with the law and ...

A person of interest was taken into custody after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire while riding a busy Chicago Transit Authority train in the city's popular Loop, police said. Police did not offer ...

A man doused a woman with a liquid and set her on fire aboard a Chicago L train, leaving her in critical condition, authorities said Tuesday. The attack occurred Monday night on a Blue Line train ...

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