Hope now rides with the Illinois General Assembly to provide state funding that could prevent rail and bus service cuts.

Metra announced fare hikes in its 2026 budget, part of a broader regional policy requiring the Chicago Transit Authority, ...

Chicago’s commuter rail is moving to raise fares to help offset a budget gap that threatens to upend the region’s transit ...

Mayor Johnson famously proposed a $300 million property tax hike last year, only to have the City Council vote it down ...

Metra riders should expect to pay an average of 13% more per ride next year as the commuter rail service proposes fare increases in response to a looming fiscal crisis.

U.S. passenger rail—including Amtrak, regional commuter lines, and urban transit systems—facilitates roughly 4.5 billion ...

Bring back the Milwaukee-Racine-Kenosha interurban rail transit. It ran from 1897 to 1947. Interest is gaining traction for ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 2 granted Metra’s application for terminal trackage rights to continue commuter rail service over three lines in the Chicago metropolitan area owned by ...

The city’s Draft Central Area Plan 2045 calls for a residential wave to double Loop’s population and diversify the urban core ...

If we had a nickel for every time somebody asked over the last few years, “So what’s happening with the plan to restart ...