Raccoon on tracks halts CTA Red Line subway service downtown

CHICAGO (CBS) — CTA Pink Line trains had been delayed Wednesday when a raccoon obtained onto the tracks within the State Avenue subway part of the road downtown.

At 11:30 a.m., the Chicago Transit Authority mentioned southbound Pink Line trains had been halted close to the Lake Avenue cease on account of an animal on the tracks.

Chicago Animal Care and Management mentioned the animal was a feminine raccoon that gotten onto the tracks and had moved down a tunnel.

Energy was briefly reduce on the Lake Avenue station to so Animal Care and Management might take away the animal.

An Animal Care and Management officer was capable of retrieve the raccoon. As a result of she was not sick, vicious, or injured, the raccoon was launched in an unspecified inexperienced space close by.

Service was again to regular by mid-afternoon.