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

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, ...

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

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

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent need to replace aging bridges. Metra owns 446 of the 926 bridges on its ...

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

Waterton closed on a $16 million preferred equity investment for the development of the Residences at Eastbank, a five-story, 258-unit, mid-rise apartment building at 100 N. Broadway in downtown ...

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

The Chicago area’s four transit agencies are staring down a budget gap that could lead to massive service cuts and fare hikes ...

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

Inbound and outbound Metra UPNW trains are stopped near Norwood Park after a train struck a vehicle, killing one person.

An outbound Union Pacific Northwest Line train hit a car just before 4 p.m. near the Norwood Park station near the ...