We managed to rescue her two-day-old child, five-year-old child and her husband.

They wait until the train is either travelling slowly enough, or stop and climb onto the roof and ride it like a surf board.

One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.

The woman also said that she heard the men talking loudly, but that their voices got softer as they apparently drowned. To my knowledge, if a person is drowning, they scream for help and put up a fight.

We are not sure if this was a family feud or what. The police are investigating.

Every day all day, every night all night, cars, planes, trucks, trains, motorcycles and even pedestrians flow through that sprawling intersection like blood coursing through the arteries of the heartland, of which Chicago still reigns as the square-shouldered capital.