Semi rams Chicago train station, killing 2

CHICAGO (AP) — A tractor trailer rammed into an elevated Chicago Transit Authority train station during the evening rush hour Friday, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen others, authorities said.

Those killed, both women, were apparently walking near the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line station on the city’s South Side, fire department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez said. They were dead at the scene, she said.

Twenty-one people were transported to area hospitals, said fire department spokesman Larry Langford. Eleven were in critical condition, including four children. Eight adults were in stable condition and two adults were in good condition.

“This is rush hour, so it’s bad,” Langford said.

Workers were searching through wreckage Friday evening for more injured, Langford said.

Rodriguez did not know the driver’s condition, or whether the driver was injured.