The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a downstate judge's ruling that found the Illinois ban was unconstitutional.

Illinois lawmakers unveiled the Metropolitan Mobility Act, a plan to combine Metra, CTA and Pace into one; the RTA would also be replaced.

Leaders from Illinois’ Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) on Aug. 21 shifted millions of dollars from Metra and Pace “to ...

An electrical fire at the University Park, Illinois terminal disrupted service on the Metra Electric line Thursday afternoon. The fire broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the University Park station, and ...

A man was seriously injured when a freight train hit a car in Harvard, Illinois, early Thursday morning. According to the ...

Metra will add service on its most-used route, the BNSF Line, and make changes to two of its Union Pacific lines in September ...

Regional transportation officials may transfer $74 million from Metra and Pace to the CTA in an attempt to delay catastrophic ...

For the first time since the early 1980’s, passenger rail service is expected to return to Rockford, as Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced a new state partnership with Metra to extend one ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A former California transit executive tapped to clean up Chicago's scandal-tarnished Metra commuter rail agency said Wednesday he was pushed out barely two years later for doing ...