Metra's plan to rename its train lines has to be done right. The public has a chance to weigh in. We'd also like to know how ...

Metra on March 18 detailed its program for the 2025 construction season, covering station, track, road crossing, bridge, and signal/communications improvement projects along the Chicagoland commuter r ...

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 ...

Metra on Monday acknowledged the confusion and began a public outreach effort that could potentially rename all of its lines ...

A pedestrian was struck by a commuter train near the Winfield depot at about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to a social media post by Metra. Metra officials said the pedestrian was taken to Central ...

One person was killed and three others injured after a Metra Electric train hit an SUV in the South Chicago neighborhood Wednesday morning, Metra said. The crash occurred at about 12:30 a.m. on ...

Service has returned to normal on four Metra commuter lines, after issues related to the extreme cold delayed several trains during the Tuesday morning rush, and a freight train hit a pedestrian ...

Trains on the Metra BNSF line were halted just in time for the afternoon rush Monday, after a train hit and killed a pedestrian in Downers Grove, Illinois. Downers Grove police said at 4:36 p.m ...

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 ...