A car crashed into a Metra train Monday at the same intersection as the deadly 1995 bus and train crash in Fox River Grove ...

The agency is asking riders to weigh in on whether they’d like to see the concept become a permanent part of their commute.

An elderly driver walked away with only minor injuries after her vehicle was struck by a Metra Union Pacific-Northwest train ...

Metra riders have until the week of Nov. 17 to visit and opine on Metra’s café car concept. The commuter rail agency is ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker disclosed earlier this month that his administration seeks to commit almost $1 billion of planned ...

Perhaps the most significant item on legislators’ veto session to-do list is whether to implement changes and secure funding ...

The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem ...

Ever since the start of a second daily Amtrak train from Union Depot, St. Paul, to Union Station, Chicago, with the Borealis, ...

Michael Gillis, the Director of Communications for Metra Commuter Rail, joins John Landecker to talk about Metra’s decision to install a Cafe Car on several lines this fall. This trial run will allow ...

Then, a number of mostly C&NW longer-distance commuter trains featured heavyweight railroad-operated "bar car" hand-me- later replaced by surplus lightweight lounges following the demise of the 400 ...

Amtrak’s Chicago train wash is now active, as evidenced by the cars and locomotive of the company’s New York-Chicago Cardinal, seen here backing into the facility after its run on Monday, Oct. 6. The ...

The attacks happened near Union Station and a Metra station on the South Side. The women connected over social media after ...