Loop

A Chicago man was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison for shooting an on-duty CTA bus driver during an altercation in the Loop two years ago.

Officials say a Chicago man with an extensive criminal history knocked a CTA passenger unconscious because the victim was standing near his bicycle on a Red Line train in the Loop.

Two men accused of being part of a group that attacked and tried to rob a man on the Red Line downtown, causing the man to jump from the moving train, have pleaded guilty to battery charges in exchange for probation sentences. Both have been arrested again on new charges.

Prosecutors said Bernard Hightower viciously kicked, jumped on, and body-slammed a 32-year-old woman during a 15-minute-long attack on a train in downtown Chicago in April 2021. Hightower has now been sentenced in the case: 5 years.