In Chicago, Illinois, a transit expansion for the Red Line is underway that will connect the Far South Side to downtown while ...

On the Daily Gist, reporter John Pletz sketched out the big ideas reformers are pushing, from modest governance changes to ...

This still image taken from Chicago Transit Authority surveillance footage and included in a federal court record shows a man who federal authorities identified as Lawrence Reed holding a flaming ...

A woman is in hospital in critical condition after being set on fire while riding the Chicago transit system, according to police. At around 9:25 p.m. on Monday, a 26-year-old woman was on a subway ...

The trend is bad news for the Chicago Transit Authority and its interim leader Nora Leerhsen, who points to positive trends on the transit system as she tries to appease the federal government.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD — With the clock ticking down to avert an impending public transit fiscal cliff, Illinois Democrats in the pre-dawn ...

CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Violent crimes on Chicago’s public transit system have increased in recent weeks, leaving local officials searching for solutions amid threats by the federal government to ...

A Chicago man who says he has “subway surfed” numerous times since he was a teenager — surreptitiously climbing atop moving L trains and becoming an open-air commuter, which he often chronicled on ...