City bus service could speed up with proven reforms, but Chicago politics and governance incentives block the changes that ...

A city commission board has approved a zoning change for a 63-acre site of a nearly 200 single-family home subdivision ...

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.

The Lake County Coroner's Office released the cause of death of a man found near the Metra tracks in Libertyville last week.

The Lake County, Illinois coroner says 30-year-old Allen Chiquini died from blunt-force head injuries around 5:30 p.m. Friday ...

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Metra reported delays along its BNSF Line on Monday evening after a freight train struck a pedestrian in the western suburbs. The transit agency, in a social media post at 7:45 p.m., said inbound and ...

Video captured a harrowing moment as a Metra train collided with the front end of a vehicle at a west suburban intersection. Hinsdale police released the footage just over an hour after the crash took ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a Metra train on the South Side in the city’s Chicago Lawn neighborhood, according to the train transportation company. A Metra Spokesperson ...