Blue Line riders saw a hero in action on April 2, when off-duty TSA worker Eddie Palacios jumped onto the tracks at the Chicago station to stop an approaching train after he noticed that a woman had fallen onto the tracks. The train stopped short of the platform and onlookers managed to pull the unnamed woman to safety before she fled the scene. A DNAinfo reporter captured the incident on video and Mayor Emanuel dubbed Palacios a “true public citizen.”
April in Chicago may have been a disappointing to those who were expecting warm spring weather, but at least we had some crazy news stories to distract us from the 30-degree temperatures and intermittent snow. We dug through Chicago's weirdest headlines and assembled the 10 wildest stories that captured our attention over the past month. Rest assured, truth is still much stranger than fiction.
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