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, ...

With $3 trillion in goods traveling through Chicago every year, the city is the busiest rail hub in the U.S. WSJ breaks down how important rail is to the region, and how vulnerable the system is ...

Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest transportation systems afloat as it stares down a steep financial cliff in ...

Unfortunately, there are also some dangerous destinations to steer clear of in Chicago. One of them, according to some locals ...

If the train leaves Rockford and makes 2 stops ... connecting the Blue Line back to O'Hare or into Chicago on the L system. This would afford continuous service, running both directions, and ...

The US DOT has granted a one-and-a-half-year extension to use $177 million in federal funds for the proposed passenger rail ...

Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority, the L (short for "elevated train") is cheap and easy to use. The CTA also operates an extensive bus system with routes servicing nearly every attraction ...

On its first day of service, passenger trains had to be rerouted from seven train terminals in Chicago into just one ... an expensive and inefficient train system? Amtrak has had a long history ...

A man was killed Thursday morning when he was hit by a Metra train near the Waukegan-North Chicago border, a spokeswoman for the commuter rail agency said. The Lake County Coroner’s Office said ...

Service includes the Intercampus, Loop Shuttle, Student Game Day, Frostbite, and Chicago Train Station shuttles. All combined, the system provides over one million rides a year to the campus community ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are looking for two suspects in connection to a Christmas Eve stabbing and robbery on a CTA train on the West Side. The crimes happened around 8:59 p.m. December 24 ...

The Regional Transportation Authority — a government agency that oversees finances and transit planning for the Chicago Transit Authority, the city’s commuter rail system Metra and the bus ...