On Monday, dozens of Barrington High School students and community members gathered next to the downtown Metra train crossing ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Evanston will see elections for mayor and City Council and school board races. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 will ...

As many members of the Northwestern community undoubtedly know, the Chicago Transit Authority is facing a crisis. Transit ...

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

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 ...