CBS News Chicago Live. CHICAGO (CBS) --CTA ridership in 2022 reached its highest levels since the start of the pandemic, but use of the city's mass transit system is still lagging far behind the ...

CTA hopes K-9 teams are a solution for crime 02:31. CHICAGO (CBS) -- As we headed into the long holiday weekend Friday, many CTA Red Line riders have been feeling rattled after a series of violent ...

The CTA spent more than $26,000 on three vehicles used by top officials at the public transit agency. In at least some cases, they were used more for commuting than for business.

While at home, the CTA workers logged more than 31,000 hours of work and were paid a total of $1.12 million from March 2020 through February of this year — including about $300,000 paid after ...

The CTA said buses on eight routes will arrive every 10 minutes or sooner between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekends beginning March 23. Twelve more routes will be added ...

A federal investigation into a CTA Yellow Line crash has found the transit agency disabled one automatic braking feature on the popular model of railcar involved, contributing to the 2023 collision.

The CTA will no longer use X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, to send service updates and alerts to passengers. In an announcement in recent days, the CTA said that it had ...

The CTA also said it's helping new hires get a commercial license so they don't have to pay for one on their own. They expect to hire another 200 bus drivers by the end of 2023. You can report ...

After three years of partial ridership recovery, the CTA’s violent crime rate for the first half of this year was 3.4. The increased rates of recent years owe more to the pandemic-related ...

CTA's rainbow-bright Pride Train is back on the Red Line tracks this month. Ride with Pride! Written by Wendy Altschuler Thursday June 5 2025. Share. Copy Link. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On the verge of a fiscal crisis, the ABC7 I-Team has examined hundreds of millions of dollars in Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employee overtime costs since 2019; all happening ...

The CTA was found not liable in the death of a woman who was struck and killed by a Red Line train in 2019 after she went onto the tracks to retrieve a cellphone she dropped, an appellate court ruled.