On Monday, dozens of Barrington High School students and community members gathered next to the downtown Metra train crossing ...

Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski's grim warning last week to the transit agency's board of directors was in many ways a ...

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...

Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.

The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle.

Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the past year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...

Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the last year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...

The clock is ticking for transit agencies facing a crater-sized budget hole, Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski warned at ...

Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest ...

Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and ...