The new law will boost funding and restructure oversight of Chicago-area transit agencies as federal pandemic aid expires.

Public transit in the Chicago metropolitan area will get a $1.5 billion infusion to save it from financial disaster under a ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday (Dec. 16) signed into law the legislation providing $1.5 billion in new funding for ...

Passengers say the journey on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief is worth it: no TSA lines, ground-level scenery spanning deserts and ...

1979: Up to 11,000 Chicago Transit Authority workers walked off the job eight days before Christmas, causing 700,000 daily ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his wife Patti face a group of reporters after he was sentenced to 14 years in ...

The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless the city tightens ...

A pedestrian was struck by a Metra train in the west Chicago suburb of Bensenville Thursday afternoon. At 1:17 p.m., Metra ...

The video showed that the car had stopped at the intersection with the train tracks, but its front end extended onto the ...

Over 6 million Illinoisans will drive, fly, bus and train somewhere over the approaching holidays, a 2.2% uptick from 2024, ...

Metra BNSF trains are running with delays after a vehicle was hit by an Amtrak train Tuesday evening in Brookfield, Illinois.