When the General Assembly met in late October for its veto session, one of the most critical matters on its agenda was passing legislation to pull the Chicago region’s mass transit system back from ...

The Chicago area's Regional Transporation Authority is calling for $1.5 billion in funding from state and local sources, including higher local sales taxes and rider fares. With Chicago-area transit ...

What is a rider’s responsibility to a transit agency? Pay your fare and show courtesy to fellow travelers and hard-working staffers. That’s all. Riders are customers, after all. But if you listen to ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] The ...

A Chicago Transit Authority train downtown. The CTA and other Chicago-area transit agencies face the prospect of service cuts if funding cannot be found. Chicago-area transit agencies and Illinois ...

Chicago-area transit is headed for a spiraling decline. Without funding to cover a $771 million budget gap, the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace will cut 30% to 40% of service. That would ...

The Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act​ goes into effect Monday, bringing some changes to public transportation across Chicago and the suburbs.

A warning has been issued to anyone who takes public transportation in Chicago — with drastic service cuts looming, Illinois legislators only have until the end of the month to decide what to do and ...

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CHICAGO – Cities and states across the country are reckoning with a major funding crisis for mass transit, and Chicago has become the latest city to fall off its “fiscal cliff,” failing to guarantee ...