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

Changes to a city ordinance make it easier to build ‘by-right’ car-free developments near train stations and pave the way for ...

Amtrak shares a first look at its new Airo trainsets. Also, Amtrak celebrates 100 years of Chicago’s Union Station; and LA ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...