An Illinois state senator from Chicago has urged for a special legislative session to be called to fund public transit, but a ...

While smoking is already banned on the CTA, a group of Chicago alderpeople called for stricter enforcement of the ban last ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

Migrant father, son stay on Chicago warming bus ahead of winter storm 02:07. A father who traveled from Venezuela to Chicago said he and his 13-year-old son have been on a CTA bus for four days.