The rail yard move comes as transit agencies in the Chicago area face a looming “fiscal cliff.” Pace, Metra and the CTA have been using American Rescue Plan Act dollars to get by after ridership ...

A man was killed Thursday morning when he was hit by a Metra train near the Waukegan-North Chicago border, a spokeswoman for the commuter rail agency said. The Lake County Coroner’s Office said ...

CHICAGO (WLS ... Pacific Northwest line train hit a car that was on the tracks. It happened at the intersection of Nagle and Avondale near the Norwood Park Metra station.

ROBBINS, Ill. (CBS) -- A car was struck by a Metra train in south suburban Robbins Monday afternoon, right before the start of the afternoon rush. Rock Island District Line train 419, scheduled to ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train on the Union Pacific North line Thursday morning, between Waukegan and North Chicago, a Metra spokesperson confirmed. The age or identity of the ...

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

Travel between the downtown Metra train stations and the Streeterville campus is easy utilizing Chicago Transit Authority bus routes. Beginning in April 2025, Northwestern and campus partners ...

A BNSF Metra train was delayed about to 40 minutes today due to a fatal accident with a pedestrian, according to Metra.

An investigation remains underway after a driver was killed when their vehicle was struck by a Metra ... westbound train. The force of the impact pushed the vehicle more than 100 yards down ...

"Extensive" delays along Metra's Rock ... vehicle was struck by a train on Monday afternoon in south suburban Robbins, the transit agency said. Footage captured by NBC Chicago's Sky 5 helicopter ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra Union Pacific West trains were stopped, after a train hit a vehicle in Melrose Park Thursday evening, the commuter rail said. Metra said in a post on X just after 5 p.m ...

A Metra spokesperson said Train 710 was inbound to Chicago after having left the yard in Harvard. The train had not made its first stop yet and so it did not have any passengers on board when it ...