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

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 ...

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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, ...

J.B. Pritzker has signed $1.5 billion public transit-funding legislation, but Illinois consumers are expected to pay the price with higher taxes and tolls. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2111 Tuesday at ...

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 ...

The Chicago Transit Authority has boosted police presence on the public transport system after President Donald Trump's administration renewed funding-cut threats over security.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- People who take 'L' trains or ride buses in Chicago have seen buttons on board that they can press to call for help in dangerous situations. But what if that button was available on ...

Just past midnight days before Christmas, Chicago police boarded a Pink Line train at Washington and Wells streets and found ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Adella Bass dropped her in-person college classes because it was just too hard to get there from the far South Side of Chicago, where the city's famous elevated train doesn't run. And ...

The Trump administration is threatening to pull funding from Chicago transit, citing a failure to ‘measurably’ improve safety ...

Senator Erica Harriss opposes Chicago transit bailout using Rebuild Illinois funds, stressing Metro East deserves fair infrastructure investment.