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 ...

Service on two Metra train lines was stopped after a train collided with a vehicle, killing one person Tuesday morning on Chicago's Northwest Side.

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

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 ...

Metra service was halted on two lines Tuesday morning after a vehicle was hit by a train near west suburban River Grove, resulting in one death.

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- There are questions about safety for drivers at an intersection where Metra tracks cross Nagle and Avondale on the Northwest Side. It was the scene of a fatal crash Saturday and ...

Damaged walls, chipping paint and discolored pipe joints mar the over 100-year-old Evanston ... and displays with train tracking information will also be added. Gillis said Metra is in the early ...