The article cited below includes news of another pedestrian fatality, this one on METRA's UP-North line. Details of that one are in the Commuter Trains forum. From Chicago Sun-Times, 5/18/04:

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About 10:50 a.m., a 60-year-old man was struck and killed by a northbound Amtrak train in a pedestrian crosswalk at the Deerfield depot...

This story is here.