For years, transit agencies in other major American cities have had powers to develop underused transit-owned land. The Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act catches Chicago up to its peers. But it ...

When the General Assembly met in late October for its veto session, one of the most critical matters on its agenda was passing legislation to pull the Chicago region’s mass transit system back from ...

As May 31 this year came and went and Illinois lawmakers passed a roughly $55 billion state spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1, a $771 million budget shortfall that Chicago area ...

Chicago has one of the largest transit systems in the United States, but despite its size, it has many flaws and challenges that prevent it from serving all Chicagoans equally and equitably. Transit 4 ...

SPRINGFIELD — With the clock ticking down to avert an impending public transit fiscal cliff, Illinois Democrats in the pre-dawn hours Friday muscled through a $1.5 billion plan that diverts state gas ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois, train station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] The ...

A Chicago Transit Authority worker was hospitalized after a stabbing attack on Thursday afternoon at a Green Line station in West Town. The employee was “severely wounded” in the attack that occurred ...

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The Chicago City Council’s Committee on Police and Fire voted to advance a proposal that would more than double funding from $30 million to $75 million per year and place up to 180 police officers per ...