Brazen Attacks Grip Blue Line Passengers (Image Credits: Unsplash)
Chicago – Riders on the CTA Blue Line endured a frightening wave of armed robberies in March 2025, carried out by a 19-year-old man and two teenage accomplices. The spree peaked with a violent carjacking of an Uber driver, whom the group summoned using a stolen phone. A Cook County judge imposed an 18-year prison term on the leader this week, crediting surveillance video for enabling his identification and conviction.[1]
Brazen Attacks Grip Blue Line Passengers
The crime wave began on March 12, 2025, when Jeremiah Burns, then 19, targeted a 28-year-old woman aboard a Blue Line train at the Kedzie station around 11:48 a.m. Masked and accompanied by two 17-year-old accomplices, Burns seized her phone while the others beat her. Passengers described the sudden violence as shocking amid routine commutes.
Just a day later, on March 13 just before 1 a.m., Burns struck again near the Western station in Tri-Taylor. He robbed a 38-year-old man of his wallet and lifted a phone from a 25-year-old man’s pocket in the same car. Surveillance captured Burns briefly lowering his mask, exposing his face.[1]…