The city of Chicago released a new option Friday for riders using public transportation. The new addition, called the Regional Day Pass, allows for unlimited rides on CTA, Metra and Pace in a single ...

William Cheaks Jr. has spent a lifetime in city government working his way up the ladder from laborer to manager of major ...

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The Orange Line shows that a transit line done right doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes, it just needs to be good ...

The Chicago area's Regional Transporation Authority is calling for $1.5 billion in funding from state and local sources, including higher local sales taxes and rider fares. With Chicago-area transit ...

The coming fiscal cliff for mass transit in Chicago is starting to look less steep than originally predicted, thanks to a tax on e-commerce that took effect in January. The Taxpayers’ Federation of ...

CHICAGO – Cities and states across the country are reckoning with a major funding crisis for mass transit, and Chicago has become the latest city to fall off its “fiscal cliff,” failing to guarantee ...

Chicago deals with the worst traffic congestion in the U.S., according to the 2025 Global Traffic Scorecard from INRIX, a transportation analytics company. The U.S. Department of Transportation and ...

Speaking to Block Club on the eve of his third year in office, Mayor Brandon Johnson also acknowledged there’s no “immediate ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Regional Transportation Authority on Wednesday pitched its plan to save public transit in Illinois—and it could cost passengers more money. The agency said the Chicago Transit ...