SKOKIE — Hundreds of CTA employees converged at the agency’s cavernous rail maintenance building in suburban Skokie on Saturday for the transit agency’s annual Jamboree event.

The event allows the CTA’s more than 10,400 employees to show off their skills in front of co-workers, family and friends. The winners of each department’s respective competitions — which include navigating an obstacle course with a bus, cleaning graffiti off CTA property or using a cutting torch to split an iron rail — is awarded extra paid time off, a trophy and cash prize.

“It’s an opportunity for employees at the authority to show their families what they do here, especially our folks in operations,” said CTA project coordinator Cee James. “When they work these long hours, you’re not always sure what’s going on

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