Hours before the 104th Illinois General Assembly adjourned its initial session May 31 by law, the State Senate voted 32-22 for legislation creating the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) ...

With Chicago-area transit's fiscal cliff looming, the area's transit agencies are searching for revenue fixes and prepping ...

Naperville’s 5th Avenue Metra train station sits north of the city’s downtown, the North Central College campus and Saints ...

Illinois must bring the same urgency, commitment, and creativity to building great trains that it shows for quantum computing ...

Metra and Pace are offering free rides to students on their first day of school next week. Chicago Public Schools and many ...

Elementary and high school students from across the region will be able to ride public transit for free on Monday, Aug. 18, ...

In a world where retirement security seems increasingly elusive, Hinsdale stands as proof that dignified, comfortable living on Social Security isn’t just a nostalgic memory of simpler times—it ...

The school is floating ground leases for developers who can create a “college town experience” for Illinois’ only ...

A police task force and a SWAT team arrested an alleged drug dealer in Fox Lake and raided a Round Lake home after the ...

If realized, the development could be a game-changer for Chicago State, primarily a commuter university largely secreted on a ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested at about 6:25 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, after he allegedly stole a a vehicle at gunpoint from two ...

The Lollapalooza festival brought thousands of people to Chicago from the suburbs, many who filled up Metra trains for the ...