The most popular destination in the Illinois park system can’t handle more visitors during the peak season because its ...

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

A contractor died after a freight train struck the snow-removal equipment he was operating Monday evening at the Naperville Metra station, causing systemwide BNSF delays. City officials expressed ...

NOTE: Metra initially indicated that an Amtrak train had struck the pedestrian, but the agency later clarified that the person was hit by a Metra train A Metra passenger train struck a pedestrian near ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (WGN) — A Metra line in the north suburbs was delayed Saturday night after a train and a vehicle collided in Arlington Heights. Metra officials said the Union Pacific Northwest ...

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CHICAGO — Tickets for Metra’s popular Holiday Trains go on sale at noon on Monday. The beloved decorated trains are filled with holiday characters, and will run on five rail lines this December.

An eastbound CSX intermodal train passes over Union Pacific and Metra diesels as it departs from the railroad’s 59th Street Yard on the new Forest Hill Flyover. The train’s departure concluded a Nov.

Metra’s leaders approved a budget that spares riders from a fare hike next year, but they acknowledged it won’t be an express train to the hoped-for transformational service expansion. The commuter ...

A Metra UP North train to Kenosha departs the Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago on Nov. 12, 2025. Metra and UP have informed the Surface Transportation Board that they have not yet ...

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