Illinois lawmakers say they’re aiming to pass legislation by the end of the month that would avoid a fiscal cliff for transit ...

With just over two weeks to go before their spring adjournment, lawmakers in Springfield are facing a tight deadline to pass ...

Public transit workers in Chicago rallied downtown Wednesday morning as a fiscal cliff that could bring deep cuts to public transportation looms ever closer.

A transportation nightmare is looming over Chicago, where a $730 million hole in the regional mass transit budget could ... schedules, maps, unions, and infrastructure? The current blueprint ...

the Chicago Transit Authority, provides bus and rail service to Chicago and adjacent Cook County suburbs, and delivers over 80% of the region’s transit trips. However, the CTA is not an ...

CHICAGO — It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs.

The Chicago Transit Authority is expected to be the first agency in the region to run off the fiscal cliff. At least four of the eight rapid transit lines in the city will likely see services cut ...

[AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] The dire warning from the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) about impending “doomsday” cuts to Chicago’s public transit system has ignited a firestorm ...

Leaders from CTA, Pace, Metra and RTA sit down for a roundtable interview to discuss public transit ... meet downtown in Chicago. That really makes it so that we can have a regional rail system.

She said the good news is that the Chicago region has an extensive public transit system, but the bad news is that there’s not a lot of coordination with various state and local departments.

(Bloomberg) -- The “doomsday scenario” for the future of Chicago’s transit system is coming into sharp focus: a $770 million budget deficit threatens thousands of jobs, sweeping service cuts ...

The “doomsday scenario” for the future of Chicago’s transit system is coming into ... That is the picture in a report released Friday by the Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees ...