The heart of the transit funding package is a decision to use all state motor fuel sales taxes to fund mass transit instead of sending that cash to the Road Fund.

The Illinois General Assembly passed a compromise bill to fund public transportation, including CTA, Metra and Pace, with the ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a compromise bill to fund public transit in an overnight session, delivering $1.5 billion in new funding for mass transit systems across the state, and creating a new ...

For months, Illinois transit leaders warned of a doomsday scenario that would hobble the region’s mass transit systems. That ...

Sierra Hodges, 32, from Skokie, was last seen around 6:30 a.m. Thursday boarding an eastbound CTA bus at 26th Street and ...

After months of talk of service cuts and mass layoffs, lawmakers in Springfield passed a funding plan for the CTA and other ...

Emanuel "Chris" Welch, a Hillside Democrat, said lawmakers gave the Regional Transportation Authority power to raise the ...

The $1.5 billion funding package also creates a new regional governing body for the system: the Northern Illinois Transit ...

State lawmakers approved new funding for public transportation agencies without large statewide tax increases previously ...