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(Source: Chicago Tribune, November 9, 2016)

CHICAGO — The city of Chicago must pay almost $2.5 million to a CTA train operator who was injured after a police car chasing a bicyclist crashed into a Brown Line train, a jury found. Chicago police Officer Charlotte Gonzalez crashed into a CTA train seconds after she drove past activated safety gates, lights and bells and onto the railroad tracks near the Kedzie Brown Line station. Gonzalez was chasing a bicyclist.

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