The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

B oth inbound and outbound Metra trains on the Union Pacific North line have been halted near North Chicago on Thursday morning due to a pedestrian being struck by a train, Metra has announced on ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train Thursday morning in North Chicago. Metra officials confirmed a male pedestrian was hit and killed by an inbound Union Pacific ...

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle.

A man was killed Thursday morning when he was hit by a Metra train near the Waukegan-North Chicago border, a spokeswoman for the commuter rail agency said. The Lake County Coroner’s Office said ...

A Metra train struck a vehicle in Chicago's Norwood Park, causing at least one death. The incident occurred around 3:50 p.m.

The clock is ticking for transit agencies facing a crater-sized budget hole, Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski warned at ...

The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...