Naperville’s 5th Avenue Metra train station sits north of the city’s downtown, the North Central College campus and Saints ...

Illinois must bring the same urgency, commitment, and creativity to building great trains that it shows for quantum computing ...

The railroad once represented the American dream of expansion—and exploitation. But is train travel becoming a thing of the past?

Metra and Pace are offering free rides to students on their first day of school next week. Chicago Public Schools and many ...

Elementary and high school students from across the region will be able to ride public transit for free on Monday, Aug. 18, ...

In a world where retirement security seems increasingly elusive, Hinsdale stands as proof that dignified, comfortable living on Social Security isn’t just a nostalgic memory of simpler times—it ...

Gunfire was reported at about 4:25 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, in the 5000 block North Northwest Highway near the Jefferson Park Metra Station as part of an apparent road-rage incident, according to 16th ...

The school is floating ground leases for developers who can create a “college town experience” for Illinois’ only ...

If realized, the development could be a game-changer for Chicago State, primarily a commuter university largely secreted on a ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested at about 6:25 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, after he allegedly stole a a vehicle at gunpoint from two ...

The RTA can't order the individual transit agencies to raise fares, but it can reject their budgets. To address the looming ...

The Lollapalooza festival brought thousands of people to Chicago from the suburbs, many who filled up Metra trains for the ...