With $3 trillion in goods traveling through Chicago every year, the city is the busiest rail hub in the U.S. WSJ breaks down ...

A CTA train heading toward downtown crashed into a slow-moving snow plow that was on the rails on Nov. 16, 2023. Thirty-eight ...

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

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Plus, we’ve got reporting on closing arguments in the trial of former Illinois ... the Chicago Transit Authority’s steel rails can crack. That’s when the “protectors of the railroad ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...

West Chicago is offering ... Main Street and the Union Pacific Railroad to the south, and High Street, Washington Street and McConnell Avenue to the north. The Downtown Investment Program is ...

Federal investigators say an “aggressive” deceleration, a disabled braking system and slippery tracks are to blame for a 2023 Chicago train crash that left dozens of people injured.