State Rep. Ryan Spain (R-Peoria) sounds off on bill that directs $1.5 billion toward public transit, with 90% earmarked for Northern Illinois ...

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

Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus fiscal cliff next year that would likely result in major ...

I spent 52 hours crossing the country on an Amtrak sleeper train from Chicago to San Francisco. In this video, I share what ...

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

The 26-year-old man was found unresponsive Monday on the street in the 3400 block of North Ashland Avenue, Chicago police ...

With time running short in the Illinois General Assembly’s fall veto session, Democratic lawmakers proposed new taxes on many ...

Alstom and Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) have presented the first of ten electric trains that will ...

Chicago's CTA Loop trains will stop this weekend due to track maintenance. Shuttle buses will replace the Brown, Green, ...

A crumbling rail overpass in Back of the Yards was the site of a violent riot that erupted during the Pullman strike of 1894, ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A man and a dog were hit and killed by an Amtrak train Tuesday afternoon on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Metra spokespeople said the collision happened at around 12:45 p.m. near West ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man died after exiting a CTA Red Line train while it was in motion on the South Side Tuesday morning, Chicago police said. CTA trains were not operating between Garfield and ...