Passengers walk toward their Metra train at Union Station last year. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share How Metra named its 14 suburban commuter rail lines made little sense. Its two “Milwa ...

A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra is phasing out the names for some of its lines, and wants to hear from its riders. The commuter rail is phasing out the Union Pacific North, Northwest and West lines.

Trains on the Metra BNSF line were halted just in time for the afternoon rush Monday, after a train hit and killed a pedestrian in Downers Grove, Illinois. Downers Grove police said at 4:36 p.m ...

A Metra train struck a pedestrian near the Main Street Railroad Crossing in Downers Grove Tuesday morning, according to Downers Grove officials. It is the second day in a row a pedestrian has been ...

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a Metra train in Downers Grove, Illinois Tuesday morning. According to Metra officials, an inbound BNSF train hit a pedestrian around 7:30 a.m. in Downers Grove.

Metra, who owns the Hegewisch station which the ... The lawsuit contends that the westbound engineer did not sound the horn to alert exiting passengers. Bentkowski was struck by the train and ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- BNSF Metra trains are moving normally again in the west suburbs after a train hit a man, the commuter rail and police said Monday. Trains were stopped near the Downers ...