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Acting Ill. U.S. Attorney: Federal Judge Sentences Man to 20 Years in Prison for Detonating Pipe Bomb at Suburban Chicago Train Station
February 10, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2024:

A federal judge today sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for detonating a pipe bomb at a suburban Chicago train station.

On Sept. 1, 2006, THOMAS JAMES ZAJAC placed a pipe bomb in a trash can at the BNSF Railway station in Hinsdale, Ill. The device exploded during the morning commute, injuring a station agent.

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