Chicago officials have 90 days to comply with a Federal Transit Authority order to increase safety measures to its plan ...

Public transit in the Chicago metropolitan area will get a $1.5 billion infusion to save it from financial disaster under a law that will take effect next summer ...

Philadelphia’s experience is a cautionary tale. One recent estimate suggests that home values near transit could fall by nearly $7 billion; that means a slashing of tax revenue that funds schools, ...

J.B. Pritzker has signed $1.5 billion public transit-funding legislation, but Illinois consumers are expected to pay the price with higher taxes and tolls. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2111 Tuesday at ...

The Chicago Transit Authority has boosted police presence on the public transport system after President Donald Trump's administration renewed funding-cut threats over security.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday (Dec. 16) signed into law the legislation providing $1.5 billion in new funding for Chicago-area transit and authorizing the restructuring of the Regional ...

Just past midnight days before Christmas, Chicago police boarded a Pink Line train at Washington and Wells streets and found ...

Starting on Friday, dozens more Chicago police officers and private security guards will be deploying the CTA's bus and train system, officials said on Thursday.

The Federal Transit Administration on Friday said it determined the CTA failed to comply with a special directive issued earlier this month that required the agency to implement “immediate, measurable ...

CHICAGO — A 32-year-old man was stabbed during an argument on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train early Sunday ...

Rail transit had quite a year in the U.S. … and not in a particularly good way. Financial, equipment, and labor issues all ...