The pedestrian killed after being struck by a freight train Friday afternoon near Lake Forest has been identified.

The Tornado Watch is in effect until 9 p.m. for dozens of Illinois counties such as Grundy, Kendall, Kankakee, La Salle and ...

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 ...

Metra is having “great luck” with its fleet of SD70MACH locomotives, Chief Operating Officer Kevin McCann told the Sandhouse ...

For most of Wednesday’s annual presentation to Northwestern University’s Sandhouse Rail Group, representatives of Metra and ...

Metra has launched a survey to get feedback on potentially renaming lines to make the system “easier to understand for new ...

Commuter service for thousands of Union Pacific riders is in jeopardy amid an impasse with the freight railroad over track ...

Or switching the Union Pacific North Line to Metra 1 (M1)? Metra is surveying passengers about a potential rebranding to make ...

Some state senators on the Transportation Committee seemed receptive Tuesday to the labor-written bill that also seeks to ...

Processing a plea: Robert Crimo III pleaded guilty to one of the worst mass shootings in Illinois history last week. Yet ...

The inbound Union Pacific North Line train at the Davis Street Metra station in 2024. Thirty years after the Metra line that ...