CHICAGO — After finding a small alligator skulking in a baggage-claim area at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, authorities are hunting for its traveling companion.
The Chicago Transit Authority has released images showing a woman who they think rode to the airport on a CTA Blue Line train with the 2-foot-long gator in the early-morning hours of Nov. 1.
Officials know this about the alligator’s trip to O’Hare: It — with the woman’s help — boarded a train at the Pulaski stop at 1:17 a.m. The security camera captured the woman petting her little friend on her knee as she talked on her cellphone.
An hour later, the woman, presumably with the alligator, disembarked the train at the airport. At 2:44 a.m., she is again recorded by the security cameras near the O’Hare stop, but with no alligator.
