A Metra Milwaukee North train rolls past welded rail awaiting installation at Deerfield, Ill., on March 9, 2025. Metra has announced its construction-season plans. David Lassen CHICAGO — Improvements ...

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 ...

F59PHI No. 79 leads a Metra UP Northwest train into Des Plaines, Ill., on May 3, 2024. Metra is asking the Surface Transportation Board to take action to ensure it can continue to operate on UP lines.

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 is launching a survey and scheduling public outreach events this month to ask riders what they think about potentially renaming lines to make the system easier ...

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 ...