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

A Metra train partially derailed during the Wednesday evening rush, disrupting three different lines. A Milwaukee District West train was just leaving Union Station at Canal Street in the West Loop ...

A widespread issue with Positive Train Control has impacted nearly every Metra rail line on Tuesday afternoon.

CHICAGO -- Metra and Amtrak passengers should expect delays at Union Station during the Wednesday evening commute after a partial train derailment. Crews were still working to remove the train from ...

Metra officials are scrutinizing what went wrong Tuesday after a malfunction in an automatic braking system halted trains at ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A disabled Amtrak train blocking Metra tracks at Chicago's Union Station has caused some delays for commuters during the Friday evening rush. While the timing was bad, the impact for ...

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

Metra announced fare hikes in its 2026 budget, part of a broader regional policy requiring the Chicago Transit Authority, ...

From the outside, stainless steel gallery car No. 6103 looks just like any other Nippon Sharyo multi-level coach. But it will ...