Metra and Pace generally support a strengthened RTA after its chairman, Kirk Dillard, laid out a vision that requires $1.5 ...

Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest transportation systems afloat as it stares down a steep financial cliff in ...

Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the past year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...

Trump border czar Tom Homan has designated the nation’s third-largest city as ground zero for his plans to round up immigrants in the country illegally and other groups at an unprecedented scale, ...

BRIAN NADIG A Norwood Park woman was killed at about 3:50 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, when an outbound Metra train struck her ...

The proposal comes as the Chicago region’s transit agencies are facing down an estimated $750 million fiscal cliff next year when COVID-19 relief money runs out — and amid conversations in Springfield ...

CTA trains every five to 10 minutes all day and better Metra service at midday, nights and weekends. One app for fares and ...

Chicago-area transit leaders are unveiling a plan they say would both avoid a sharp post-COVID reduction in service and help ...

Amid a $770 million budget gap facing Metra, Pace and the CTA, and a proposal to merge the three into a supersized agency, ...

CHICAGO - Ald. Daniel La Spata said he intends to bring his proposed ordinance to lower the citywide speed limit to 25 mph up for a vote at Wednesday’s full City Council meeting. The ordinance passed ...

ROBBINS, Ill. (WLS) -- One person was hospitalized, after a Metra train hit a vehicle in the south suburbs Monday afternoon.