Chicago officials have 90 days to comply with a Federal Transit Authority order to increase safety measures to its plan ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday (Dec. 16) signed into law the legislation providing $1.5 billion in new funding for Chicago-area transit and authorizing the restructuring of the Regional ...

We savored the Loop and all it had to offer because we were here five days a week. That version of downtown depended on ...

Philadelphia’s experience is a cautionary tale. One recent estimate suggests that home values near transit could fall by nearly $7 billion; that means a slashing of tax revenue that funds schools, ...

Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2111, which raises $1.5 billion to plug a fiscal cliff for the Chicago area’s transit agencies that was set to hit next year. The plan doesn’t include any statewide tax ...

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is offering free rides on New Year’s Eve. The free rides begin at 10 p.m. Wednesday and ...

A yearly tradition will make its return this week as Chicago-area residents can get free transit rides on New Year’s Eve.

A grand jury this week indicted a man on charges of setting a young woman on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train last month, and also setting a fire outside City Hall.

Public transit in the Chicago metropolitan area will get a $1.5 billion infusion to save it from financial disaster under a law that will take effect next summer. Gov.

Each time someone boards a CTA bus or train, their chances of becoming a victim of or even witnessing any kind of violent crime that results in serious physical harm to a ...

CHICAGO — A 32-year-old man was stabbed during an argument on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train early Sunday ...

Rail transit had quite a year in the U.S. … and not in a particularly good way. Financial, equipment, and labor issues all ...