Metra hopes to drive up ridership and keep riders from running late by turning one car into a full-service café.

Metra in Chicago is considering reintroducing bar cars as café cars on trains, serving drinks and snacks based on rider ...

At the urging of riders, a bar car of sorts might become reality again on Metra trains, though with one possible large ...

South Shore Line passengers taking the train to and from Chicago this weekend will be transported by bus between the 18th ...

Broadway In Chicago and Metra are partnering to offer theatergoers free round-trip train travel to Disney’s Beauty and the ...

Metra will provide extra train service during Lollapalooza weekend. According to festival organizers, small clutch purses and ...

Metra riders could fortify themselves after an arduous day at the office in what was known as a bar car. Those havens were gradually decommissioned but some passengers haven’t ...

A good-faith effort to increase housing and retail near bus and train stations? Or overreach by a non-elected board to ...

Amtrak’s Borealis reached the 250,000-passenger milestone during the July 4th holiday weekend, the passenger operator has ...

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The Metra Electric Line, which connects downtown Chicago to the southern suburbs, will have adjusted schedules for two weekends this month to accommodate construction, officials announced Thursday.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on July 1 denied a petition for injunctive relief and application for an emergency service order by Metra, which is in dispute with Union Pacific over ...