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Metra's electronic ticket scanning pilot program officially launched Monday at some downtown Chicago stations.

Northwest Indiana officials say the $1.6 billion extension rail extension could create an economic boom for the area.

The Chicago Urban Heritage Project​ is filling in blanks for the history of entire neighborhoods and Chicago as a whole, ...

• Amtrak's Texas Eagle is a 1,306-mile route that travels between Chicago and San Antonio. • It stops in several cities, including St. Louis, Little Rock, and Dallas, offering an opportunity to ...

Billionaire investor Justin Ishbia is on the verge of buying an Amtrak rail yard southwest of downtown and just across the Chicago River from The 78, a new mixed-use development still eyed as a ...

The largest neighborhood air monitoring network in the U.S. allows residents to track Chicago air pollution in real time. March 14: A statement about how air quality data can be used to identify ...

OmniTRAX on Feb. 26 reported launching a multi-modal logistics hub in the city of Blue Island, just south of Chicago, that offers access to all Class I’s through Chicago Rail Link, one of the 30-plus ...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — There's a possible game changer in the works for the area with the addition of rail travel possibly coming to Steubenville to be a hub on a connector between Chicago and ...

According to the High Speed Rail Alliance, the proposed Passenger Rail Planning Act would direct the Illinois Department of Transportation to plan for a minimum of hourly service ‘in several strategic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was stabbed on a CTA Green Line train on the South Side Thursday night, Chicago police said. The incident occurred at about 10:45 p.m. in the 300-block of East 47th Street.

Metra commuter train service cuts caused by a train derailment in Chicago Ridge early Wednesday morning were expected to continue into Thursday. The derailment involved 10 rail cars and occurred about ...