A 2024 law change in Illinois is turning out to have ramifications for the fiscal cliff facing Chicago-area transit agencies.

Chicago’s got one of the best public transit systems in the nation, but ridership on the CTA, Metra and Pace has plummeted during the pandemic.

That would take a substantial bite out of the projected $771 million shortfall in annual funding for the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace rail and bus services once the pandemic-era relief ...

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

A transit rider steps onto the street to see if a CTA bus is coming in the 3100 block of Chicago’s North Clark Street on July 19, 2022. CTA has struggled with complaints of irregular service and ...

Public transit in Chicago will fall off a fiscal cliff without a plan for 2025 Federal pandemic relief funds will run out in 2025. Regional authorities, the state of Illinois and federal agencies ...

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, or CMAP, spent the better part of a year trying to come up with solutions to keep the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and the suburban bus system ...

New data from the Chicago Transit Authority show the agency is still struggling to plug workforce gaps that are causing reductions in rail and bus service across the system.. At the monthly ...

Cities such as Miami, Minneapolis, Houston and Phoenix, the RTA points out, have more than 100 miles of transit-only or transit-priority lanes. Chicago has less than 15 miles, excluding bus-on ...

Mass Transit detectives are asking for the public's help with identifying a man they said robbed another passenger on a CTA ...

The big city's commuters would be hit hard, 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.