The Illinois General Assembly ended its legislative session without resolving a $770 million budget gap affecting train, bus ...

Chicago’s mayor-run system carries some 85 percent of the area’s transit trips—but would lose control under a regional reorganization to suburban and state appointees, disenfranchising the ...

[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 ...

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend ...

State lawmakers are wrestling with how to solve Chicago’s ongoing ... funds to be shifted to transit to avoid drastic cuts to Philadelphia’s public transit system last year.

While proponents of separate bills to reform Chicago-area transit said they ... “We have a fragmented transit system that’s not working,” said Joe Ferguson, president of the Civic Federation ...

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 and a crater ...

Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, has repeatedly ... federal highway funds to be shifted to transit to avoid drastic cuts to Philadelphia’s public transit system last year. Illinois could do the ...