A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...

Two separate reform proposals for public transit got an airing Tuesday during a Senate Transportation Committee hearing that ...

Morton Grove officials have issued a request for proposals to redevelop the 8500 block of Lehigh Avenue, near the town’s Metra station and within a tax increment financing district. Proposals ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra is phasing out the names for some of its lines, and wants to hear from its riders. The commuter rail is phasing out the Union Pacific North, Northwest and West lines.

Passengers walk toward their Metra train at Union Station last year. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share How Metra named its 14 suburban commuter rail lines made little sense. Its two “Milwa ...

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The team focused on developing evaluation tools to be used on a new ‘Mental Wellbeing’ project. They developed and tested tools to capture: changes in mood and well-being; and service user empowerment ...

Suburban Metra trains were stopped in Downers Grove and delays were expected Tuesday morning after a train on the BNSF line headed to Union Station in Chicago struck a pedestrian. A Metra ...

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a Metra train in Downers Grove, Illinois Tuesday morning. According to Metra officials, an inbound BNSF train hit a pedestrian around 7:30 a.m. in Downers Grove.

Metra officials have halted service through the BNSF corridor and are warning commuters to expect extensive delays. Monday, a pedestrian was struck just after 4:30 p.m. by an eastbound train near ...