Upcoming projects including a new elevator for the Downtown Metra station as well as summer activities were given preliminary approvals in a series of Kenosha city meetings this week. They advance ...

Metra announced on Wednesday, April 16, that it will recognize Take a Child to Work Day on Thursday, April 24, by allowing young people 12 and under who are accompanied by an adult to ride for free.

In 2019, Metra started a poster campaign on trains to reach out and offer help to young sex trafficking victims. Six years later, the railroad is expanding those efforts to prevent human trafficking.

Metra police said that up to 20 people were effectively living in the station as the winter months wore on. That led to complaints from riders about litter, smoking and drug use.

The village of Huntley is acquiring land near Kreutzer Road and the railroad tracks. The village is taking possession of about 12.2 acres of vacant property for “future municipal purposes ...

Oak Park commuter train station at 1115 North Blvd. (Google Maps/Screenshot) Metra police assumed operational control of the Oak Park commuter train station at 1115 North Blvd. as of April 1 ...

Metra Rock Island District train No. 513 eases past 16th Street Tower at 9;34 p.m. on April 11, 2025 — the tower’s last night in operation. David Lassen CHICAGO — J.D. Danton’s shift at Metra’s 16th ...

The moment a semi-truck and a train collided in Minnesota was caught on camera. It happened in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota as a driver with a grain trailer tried to turn into a business by crossing ...

Metra settled on the location for its new Woodstock rail yard — the farmland near the existing Union Pacific Northwest Line tracks, east of Lamb Road Metra wants to build a larger, more modern rail ...

Long-stalled work to rehabilitate and modernize the 59th Street Metra station could begin next year, a Metra official says. Originally planned to start in 2022, construction was delayed by more than ...

CTA, Metra and Pace fare revenues are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, even as they experimented with increasing off-peak and weekend service to try to attract riders beyond the traditional ...