Chicago Tribune report
A person was struck and killed by an Amtrak train this morning on the far Northwest Side.
The incident happened before 8 a.m. at Metra's Edgebrook station, at Devon and Lehigh avenues. The train had left Milwaukee at 6:15 a.m.
It was unclear how the person ended up on the tracks, and the station is not a scheduled stop, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.
The accident delayed Amtrak rail traffic. Metra trains were rerouted around the Milwaukee North line but were delayed up to 20 minutes, a Metra spokesman said.
The Amtrak train involved in the incident started back toward Chicago at about 10 a.m., a spokesman said.
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