Crime & Safety

High School Boy Struck And Killed By Amtrak Train In Logan Square

A Milwaukee-bound Hiawatha line train struck the boy in the 3900 block of West Armitage Avenue.

By CBS Chicago Staff:

CHICAGO (CBS) — A high school age boy was killed by an Amtrak train Thursday morning, as he was trespassing on a railroad embankment in the Logan Square neighborhood.

Amtrak and Chicago Fire Department officials said, around 9:30 a.m., a Milwaukee-bound Hiawatha line train struck the boy in the 3900 block of West Armitage Avenue.

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