What the records say
- When
- 4 Feb 1977
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 41.89° N, 87.63° W
- Description
- deadly crash of a rapid transit train in Chicago, Illinois
- Deaths
- 11
- Injured
- 180
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eleven CTA commuters are killed when an elevated train derails from the Loop in central Chicago, United States”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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