In 1961, the massive, 50 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union over Novaya Zemlya. In 1972, two ...

In 1972, two commuter trains crashed in Chicago, killing 45 people and injuring more than 300. It was the country's worst ...

An autopsy on Wednesday determined that a man who was found dead on the street beneath CTA Brown Line tracks had died as a result of falling from a moving train, authorities said. Chicago police ...

House Democrats have dropped a sweeping transit overhaul to bailout Chicago area transit, which would have raised $1.5 ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.

A new PBS doc narrated by Edward Norton follows the 60-year fight—and triumph— to convert abandoned railroads into trails for ...

A person was killed after falling onto CTA tracks and coming into contact with the third rail on the city's Near North Side, ...

1995: A bus loaded with high school students was hit by an express commuter train at a crossing in Fox River Grove, tearing ...

A free, standalone, self-cleaning public restroom will be installed in Chicago next year, according to Ald. Daniel La Spata ...