Chicago commuter train crashes into rail equipment, more than 20 injured, some seriously

CHICAGO (AP) — Fire officials say a Chicago commuter train has collided with rail equipment, injuring more than 20 people, some of them critically. The Chicago Fire Department says a Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into snow-removal equipment Thursday morning. Fire officials say the train collided with the slower-moving rail equipment near the Howard CTA station on the city’s North Side. Thirty-one commuters and seven CTA workers were aboard the train headed southbound from Skokie. A fire official says four children are among the 23 people taken to area hospitals and three of those injured were in critical condition. But he says no one suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash.