The Chicago City Council will allow residential developments near public transit to build without imposing parking space minimums, offering a major boost for affordability and the city’s housing ...

Illinois' 2026 fiscal year started Tuesday, but more money for public transit is not in the budget, leaving transit leaders ...

Chicago risks severe cuts to transit. ... with the Chicago Transit Authority poised to shut down four of eight elevated train lines and 74 of 127 bus routes under the worst-case scenario.

Rally-goers in Chicago are urging Illinois lawmakers to fund public transit to prevent a $770 million shortfall and ...

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget.

Those are some of the cuts under consideration if lawmakers fail to plug a $771 million budget gap expected to hit the region’s four transit agencies as soon as next year, when COVID-19 relief ...

The Chicago area could suffer bus and rail-service cuts of 30% or more if state lawmakers don’t find new sources of money to replace federal aid that’s drying up by 2026, a regional planning ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois, train station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] ...

Chicago risks severe cuts to transit. ... with the Chicago Transit Authority poised to shut down four of eight elevated train lines and 74 of 127 bus routes under the worst-case scenario.

HARVEY, Ill. (AP) — Winfred Wilson was struggling to make ends meet on less than $700 a month, so he moved in with his daughter, gave up his car and started relying exclusively on public transit ...