CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Theft on the Blue Line, last 12 months

Crime reports CPD logged at CTA stations, trains, buses and bus stops, from City of Chicago data.

79

incidents on the Blue Line

At 33 stations

1 per 380,000

entries (rides) per report (est.)

29.8M entries · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.

113

same dates a year earlier

Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -34 (-30%) this year · 1 per 380,000 vs 1 per 260,000 rides (est.)

Blue Line

Entries per report, darker = more oftenover 800,000400,000–800,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,000under 100,000Size = incidents. none. outside Chicago (no CPD data).

Blue Line

Incidents: 79
Rate: 1 per 380,000 rides
Stations: 33
Most incidents: Clark/Lake (8)

Blue Line stations · all 33, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Blue Line stations in order, incidents and rate per ride (1 incident per X entries)
Station	Incidents	Per ride

	outside Chicago	–
	outside Chicago	–
	outside Chicago	–
	outside Chicago	–
low ridership	5	1 per 35,000
low ridership	7	1 per 28,000
low ridership	3	1 per 90,000
low ridership	0	none
low ridership	0	none
low ridership	0	none
	1	1 per 1,100,000

	5	1 per 130,000
	0	none
	6	1 per 220,000
	1	1 per 1,100,000
	6	1 per 450,000
+ 5 lines	8	1 per 470,000
	2	1 per 450,000

	2	1 per 330,000
	2	1 per 660,000
	6	1 per 240,000
	1	1 per 1,100,000
	4	1 per 280,000
	3	1 per 520,000
	1	1 per 1,100,000
	2	1 per 290,000
	1	1 per 870,000
	1	1 per 510,000
	0	none
low ridership	0	none
	5	1 per 150,000
	outside Chicago	–
	7	1 per 470,000

Per ride = 1 incident per X entries (rides). Ridership through Aug 31, 2026, later days estimated.

Time of day · Blue Line stretches and stations, rate per ride, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Time of day on the Blue Line, by stretch or station, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

79 reports of theft

Reports per ride by stretch and 4-hour block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026. Each cell reads 1 report per X rides; a dash means too few reports or not rated.
Stretch	12–4 am	4–8 am	8 am–noon	noon–4 pm	4–8 pm	8 pm–12 am
Blue Line79 reports	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	1 per 420,000	1 per 580,000	1 per 420,000	fewer than 10 reports	1 per 100,000

Rides per report, darker = more dangerousover 800,000400,000–800,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,000under 100,000too few reports or not rated

Each cell: 1 report per X rides in that block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

About these numbers

Crime types. Violent = homicide, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. “Include simple battery” (on by default here, unlike other pages) adds battery without a weapon or serious injury.
Stations and lines. An “L” report counts at the nearest station within 150 m (281 of 341 in these dates); the rest count only in the All CTA and All “L” totals. A line or part of a line adds up its stations, so a report at a station several lines share (Clark/Lake, the Loop, Roosevelt) counts on each of them. Stations outside Chicago have no CPD data.
Per ride. “1 per X rides” = one incident for every X station entries or bus rides (entries, not riders; a shared station's entries count for each line); X = 1,000,000 ÷ incidents per million. Ridership is published monthly (through Aug 31, 2026); later days use the latest 12 months' daily average. Stations under 500K entries a year are flagged “low ridership”.
Buses. A bus report is shared among routes within 50 m, weighted by ridership. Route rates need 1M+ rides a year; the route table needs 2M+.
Time of day. The first tab rates each 4-hour block per ride: CTA publishes no hourly ridership, so riders in a block are estimated as entries (or bus boardings) × that block's share of CTA trips in CMAP's My Daily Travel survey; its ⓘ note has the details. The other tabs count reports by the hour the City recorded. Unknown times are often logged at midnight or noon, which lifts those hours.