The order, issued in a Transportation Department memo late last week, calls on the department to "give preference to ...

A new bill aims to provide more efficient and reliable transit and dodge a fiscal crisis, write the Illinois AFL-CIO and ...

Legislators have until the end of May to hammer out a solution to a fiscal crisis that public transit leaders say could lead ...

An NTSB investigation into a CTA Yellow Line crash found the transit agency’s decision to disable a braking feature partly ...

The Chicago Transit Authority’s newly minted acting president said her focus is on “stability as well as opportunity” as the ...

The CTA warned riders Tuesday morning of "significant delays near Clark/Lake due to track switching problems," which prompted the transit agency to switch the Pink and Purple lines to the outer ...

One of the biggest debates in Springfield — how to keep mass transit from running out of money — is finally starting to take shape.

Ka’Von Wooden loved trains. The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City’s subway system and dreamed of becoming a train operator. Instead, on a December morning ...

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, according to a ...

A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been.” Written and illustrated by Jake Berman. University of ...

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

(Bloomberg) -- Chicago transit officials are advocating for a $1.5 billion annual funding package to help keep one of the country’s largest transportation systems afloat as it stares down a ...