Know Before You Go: St. Patrick's Day 2025 Events Around Chicagoland
Six St. Patrick's Day parades will take place in Chicago, Plainfield and Naperville, plus river dyeing and more March ...
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Delays on Metra BNSF train line due to emergency track repairs
Metra said. The BNSF train line travels from west suburban Aurora, through Naperville and ends at Chicago’s Union Station going inbound. What we know Fox 32’s Gabriella Premus reported that ...
Chicago Tribune5d
New names could be in store for Metra lines, as agency sues Union Pacific during takeover of UP routes
Metra is considering renaming all of its lines, as the rail agency prepares to take over operation of three Union Pacific routes. But before the takeover goes into effect, Metra and Union Pacific ...
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Metra ‘owes an explanation’: Documents show ‘allegation chart’ and ‘discrimination section’ in secret police probe
The cost of three days’ work preparing a report for the Metra board about alleged police department misconduct? Around ...
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Editorial: Metra’s costly investigation into its own police calls for transparency
Why did Metra pay a team of outside lawyers $1.57 million to investigate its Police Department? The firm McGuireWoods was hired in 2023 to dive into anonymous allegations of troubling behavior and ...
Chicago Sun-Times6d
Metra considers replacing rail line names with numbers, letters
Passengers walk toward their Metra train at Union Station last year. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share How Metra named its 14 suburban commuter rail lines made little sense. Its two “Milwa ...
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‘Silos’ and ‘steamrollers’: Rival plans to save Metra, Pace and the CTA go under the microscope
Two separate reform proposals for public transit got an airing Tuesday during a Senate Transportation Committee hearing that ...