The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...

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

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.

The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...

Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.

Mr. Smith is the author of “Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City.” When the monumental fire of October 1871 struck Chicago, the city, which had ...

If US Immigration and Customs Enforcement visits a Chicago restaurant in the coming days, Sam Toia wants to know. With the incoming Trump administration planning to kick off an immigration ...

Scattered snow showers were creeping into the Chicago area Wednesday morning starting in the western suburbs, with more light snow expected to fall throughout the day, the NBC 5 Storm Team said.

Connections is a popular daily word puzzle that tests players' ability to notice patterns in a table of terms. The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow ...