{"id":961399,"date":"2026-07-27T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961399\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:11:14","slug":"metra-reports-delays-on-up-nw-line-after-pedestrian-struck-killed-by-train-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961399\/","title":{"rendered":"Metra reports delays on UP-NW Line after pedestrian struck, killed by train \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metra advised riders taking its Union Pacific-Northwest Line on Sunday evening to prepare for extensive delays after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a train near Palatine.<\/p>\n<p>A Metra spokesperson confirmed a fatal incident involving a pedestrian occurred at around 3:25 p.m. near the Wood Street and Smith Street railroad crossing. A woman was struck by a train, taken to an area hospital and was pronounced dead, the Metra official said. <\/p>\n<p>Palatine police said officers were dispatched to the scene around 3:30 p.m. and were assisting with both traffic control and scene security. North Smith Street between West Wood Street and West Wilson Street remained closed while police investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information wasn&#8217;t immediately available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metra advised riders taking its Union Pacific-Northwest Line on Sunday evening to prepare for extensive delays after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,18277],"class_list":["post-961399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-metra"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116989047101111975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961399","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=961399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}