Chicago officials have 90 days to comply with a Federal Transit Authority order to increase safety measures to its plan ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday (Dec. 16) signed into law the legislation providing $1.5 billion in new funding for Chicago-area transit and authorizing the restructuring of the Regional ...

We savored the Loop and all it had to offer because we were here five days a week. That version of downtown depended on ...

Philadelphia’s experience is a cautionary tale. One recent estimate suggests that home values near transit could fall by nearly $7 billion; that means a slashing of tax revenue that funds schools, ...

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is offering free rides on New Year’s Eve. The free rides begin at 10 p.m. Wednesday and ...

A grand jury this week indicted a man on charges of setting a young woman on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train last month, and also setting a fire outside City Hall.

The Trump administration is threatening to pull funding from Chicago transit, citing a failure to ‘measurably’ improve safety ...

Service on the CTA Yellow Line between Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood and suburban Skokie was suspended during the morning rush Tuesday, after a car went off the rails.

Just past midnight days before Christmas, Chicago police boarded a Pink Line train at Washington and Wells streets and found ...

While Chicago focused on the part of the Illinois transit bill that bailed out the CTA, Metra and Pace, there was intense interest in a much small provision that could have a big impact for Western ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With money for new rail lines, regulations for residential development projects and a list of infrastructure priorities in the Chicago area, a public transportation bill recently ...

Rail transit had quite a year in the U.S. … and not in a particularly good way. Financial, equipment, and labor issues all ...