{"id":166784,"date":"2025-08-22T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:25:11","slug":"chicago-man-charged-with-attacking-cta-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166784\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged with attacking CTA worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/amir-cordova.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Amir Cordova | Chicago police <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Chicago police said a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">attack<\/a> on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/organization\/cta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CTA employee<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Amir Cordova was arrested Thursday morning in the 400 block of South Halsted Street and identified as the person who battered a 70-year-old male transit worker on Grand Blue Line platform, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Cordova faces three felony counts of aggravated battery \u2014 including against a victim over 60 and a transit employee \u2014 as well as a misdemeanor theft charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Cordova is scheduled to appear at a detention hearing Friday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/fulton-river-district\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulton River District<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/organization\/cta\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Transit Authority<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Amir Cordova | Chicago police CHICAGO &#8211; Chicago police said a 23-year-old man has been charged in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,27248,95835,5386,1818,50,12632,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-166784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-cta","12":"tag-fulton-river-district","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-organization","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115073117430632277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}