Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...

An outbound Union Pacific Northwest Line train hit a car just before 4 p.m. near the Norwood Park station near the ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle.

Lorene Wilson, a 69-year-old Chicagoan, was killed. Bruscato questions the safety of the intersection, saying it is the same ...

An investigation remains underway after a driver was killed when their vehicle was struck by a Metra UP-Northwest train on Saturday night.

"No wider than a semi-truck and trailer, it would be possible to run this line down the inside shoulder of I-90," writes Robert Manning of Rockford.

Dorval Carter Jr., who announced his retirement Monday to widespread relief, was no “train daddy,” to use the phrase applied ...

A Chicago-bound Metra Rock Island train hit a car around 7:30 p.m. near the 103rd Street station at 10355 S. Vincennes Ave. in Washington Heights, Metra said. Passengers were transferred to ...

A Chicago development group has begun the process of planning to build its envisioned 31-story mixed-use building in downtown ...