and then another $5 on coffee so I could have something to sip as I sat and stared at Frank Lloyd Wright’s magnificent brick creation on the University of Chicago campus, the Frederick C. Robie House.

Metra in Chicago is considering reintroducing bar cars as café cars on trains, serving drinks and snacks based on rider ...

A Metra train line was disrupted Thursday after a train hit a 16-year-old pedestrian on the city's South Side, Metra ...

While smoking is already banned on the CTA, a group of Chicago alderpeople called for stricter enforcement of the ban last ...

Since Chicago Union Station opened 100 years ago, the station has grown to be the busiest in the city and the third most used ...

Metra said just before 7 p.m., Metra Electric train No. 345, scheduled to arrive at 93rd Street/South Chicago at 8:38 p.m., hit a pedestrian around 27th Street.

Broadway In Chicago and Metra are partnering to offer theatergoers free round-trip train travel to Disney’s Beauty and the ...

During a Tuesday news conference to celebrate Union Station’s centennial, leaders highlighted the station’s history, ...

Trains on a busy Metra line that runs from Chicago up through the northern suburbs and into Wisconsin were suspended Monday morning due to "emergency track repairs," Metra said.

Trains on Metra's Union Pacific-North line were running with delays Monday morning due to emergency track repairs in Evanston and a broken down inbound train near Fort Sheridan.

Chicago commuters had a fun way to enjoy their morning coffee Friday — inside a Metra train car turned pop-up party.

Not that many transit executives can shift from spreadsheets and scheduling to operating a train in a pinch. Retired Metra ...