Metra, the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area, announced it will be exploring alternative finance ...

A motorist has died after a Metra train struck a vehicle Tuesday morning near west suburban River Grove, causing delays to at ...

RIVER GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- One person was killed after a Metra train struck a vehicle Tuesday morning. A North Central Service train struck a vehicle near River Grove, killing one person, Metra said.

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a ...

Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest ...

Metra and Pace generally support a strengthened RTA after its chairman, Kirk Dillard, laid out a vision that requires $1.5 ...

Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra Union Pacific West trains were stopped, after a train hit a vehicle in Melrose Park Thursday evening, the commuter rail said. Metra said in a post on X just after 5 p.m ...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. — Metra riders faced some delays during rush hour on Thursday after a train hit a car in the western suburbs. In an update shared on X by Metra at around 5:10 p.m. Thursday ...