Medill Newscast 7/3/15

Some of this week’s top stories from Medill Reports. The Chicago Transit Authority is enforcing a plan created to prevent reduced-fare fraud at stations. See Lydia Randall’s coverage.

Fraudulent cards cost CTA millions (VIDEO)

By Lydia Randall and Sara Shouhayib Fraudulent use of subsidized Chicago Transit Authority cards in the last six months has cost CTA more than six million dollars, but such cases of fraud are on the decline. CTA began the effort to curtail fraudulent card use last November, when it was revealed that cases of card […]