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Adam Harrington is a digital producer at CBS Chicago, where he first arrived in January 2006. Illinois state lawmakers spent hours on Thursday debating a proposal to overhaul the state's mass transit ...

CHICAGO — Car counts and dwell at the Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard have increased dramatically since CSX cut back operations at Barr Yard, its primary Chicago-area terminal, prompting an ...

The campaign, spearheaded by Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Transportation, aims to improve rider ...

Chicago’s Green Line is a marvel in urban transit — or at least, it should be. Operating on some of the oldest stretches of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawmakers scrambled this weekend to undertake a significant overhaul of public transit in the Chicago area, but ultimately were unable to pass legislation to address a looming fiscal cliff. That ...

The Chicago Transit Authority sued President Donald Trump's administration on Friday in a bid to undo a White House decision to freeze $3.1 billion in funding for rail projects in the third ...

The clock is ticking for state lawmakers to find more than $700 million for the CTA, Metra, Pace and Regional Transportation Authority before they run out of federal COVID-19 grants next year and ...