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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- No Metra or Amtrak trains were able to enter or exit Chicago Union Station for a brief time Thursday morning due to signal problems. Amtrak officials said their signal system ...

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

Union Pacific Railroad sued Metra Monday in an escalation of an ongoing compensation dispute between the two railroads. Union Pacific alleges Metra owes it close to $2.3 million in the lawsuit, which ...

The attacks happened near Union Station and a Metra station on the South Side. The women connected over social media after one of their moms posted a picture of the alleged attacker online.