A Joliet man has been charged with pushing a man off a CTA Blue Line platform earlier this month.
James Stamps, 28, faces a count of aggravated battery in the Aug. 5 attack at the Medical District stop on the Near West Side, Chicago police said.
The attack occurred at 7 a.m. as a rider walked along the edge of the platform, police said. He passed a man who shoved him onto the tracks, just missing the electrified third rail. Police released photos of the suspect days later.
As of mid-July, 488 attacks had been reported on the transit system — the most since 533 during the same period in 2011, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis.
