Both Bellwood and Metra police officers were investigating how someone got into the shipping containers on the freight train.

Lawmakers still have time to avert a $771 million fiscal cliff. But transit agencies like the CTA will start planning now for ...

CTA, Metra, and Pace officials are preparing "doomsday budgets" after Illinois state lawmakers didn't address the Chicago area mass transit system's massive budget shortfall during the spring ...

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The $55 billion budget plan unveiled Friday night by Democratic leadership would include new taxes on gambling as well as ...

Legislation to reform mass transit around Chicago passed the Illinois Senate 32-22 shortly late Saturday, but the measure — ...

Chicago-area transit operations will face draconian cuts to service in the next fiscal year after Illinois legislators on ...

Chicago-area transit agencies face a $771 million budget gap. Absent state action, they’re warning about a 40 percent ...

It's the type of crime that spans nearly two centuries, back when the railroad was first built: thieves stealing cargo from ...