The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...

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

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

The clock is ticking for transit agencies facing a crater-sized budget hole, Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski warned at ...

The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...

A Chicago development group has begun the process of planning to build its envisioned 31-story mixed-use building in downtown ...

Yellowstone County commissioners are offering the use of MetraPark to detain illegal immigrants caught in the region ...

From planning ahead for camping season, playing music alongside an orchestra in a friendly competition, or helping to study ...

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

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Among the slew of executive orders President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office Monday was an effort to end future birthright citizenship for ...

Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.

Public transit experts and advocates in Evanston and beyond have expressed skepticism over recently proposed funding packages intended to keep regional transit afloat. Chicago-area transit operators ...