Month: November 2025

After being arrested by Chicago police officers in the Loop on Tuesday morning, the man accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train this week spontaneously yelled “Burn b****!” and “Burn alive b****!” according to a newly filed federal criminal complaint.

The man being questioned by Chicago police, suspected of setting a woman on fire as they rode a Blue Line train in the Loop on Monday night, was walking the streets only because a Cook County judge refused to keep him in jail after he allegedly knocked a social worker unconscious at a west suburban psychiatric hospital, court records show.

Chicago police have detained a suspect in connection with the horrific setting of a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop on Monday night, according to a source familiar with the investigation. And, the source says, the suspect is supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor for a pending aggravated battery case in which a Cook County judge refused to keep him in custody.

A man poured flammable liquid on a woman and set her on fire during an argument aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop on Monday night, Chicago police said.

A 65-year-old man with a history of pickpocketing on Chicago’s transit system is once again accused of stealing wallets from women on the CTA Blue Line in the Loop, prosecutors said.