A CTA employee was stabbed on a train platform Sunday evening in the Loop. A Chicago police officer was also injured while responding to the scene.
About 5:45 p.m., a CTA employee was responding to an altercation on the platform in the 300 block of South Dearborn Street when a 39-year-old man stabbed him with a knife, Chicago police said.
The man then grabbed a blunt object and struck an officer in the back, police said.
The CTA employee, a 44-year-old man, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition.
The man who stabbed him was taken to Stroger Hospital for unknown injuries. His condition was stabilized, according to police.
The officer was taken to a nearby hospital where his condition was stabilized.
