{"id":181384,"date":"2025-08-28T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/181384\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:16:09","slug":"metra-train-derailment-in-chicago-prompts-hours-long-shutdown-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/181384\/","title":{"rendered":"Metra train derailment in Chicago prompts hours-long shutdown \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Metra train lines were shut down for nearly two hours Wednesday evening after a train leaving Chicago&#8217;s Union Station derailed, causing extensive delays. <\/p>\n<p>The Milwaukee District West train was leaving Union at Canal Street when the front wheels of the train derailed, Metra spokesperson Michael Gillis said. <\/p>\n<p>Trains on the Milwaukee District North line and the North Central Service line were stopped for nearly 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Metra did not state when the derailment occurred, however, the shutdown impacted trains scheduled to leave as early as 6 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>As of 7:45 p.m., the Milwaukee District North line and the North Central line were still shut down. <\/p>\n<p>Alerts on the Metra website state &#8220;extensive delays&#8221; are expected on both lines.<\/p>\n<p>Metra was working to restore service, and the spokesperson told NBC Chicago that trains should be running soon around 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The train that derailed was moving &#8220;relatively slowly and stayed upright,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Video on social media shows dozens of Metra commuters exiting the train after the derailment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Metra train lines were shut down for nearly two hours Wednesday evening after a train leaving Chicago&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,18277],"class_list":{"0":"post-181384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-metra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115104224876147021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181384","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=181384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}