The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem ...

This year’s veto session for Illinois state lawmakers in Springfield is missing one ingredient. No vetoed legislation to ...

1943: Mayor Edward J. Kelly cut a red, white and blue ribbon at street level near State and Madison streets to open Chicago’s first subway system. Kelly told the crowd that the 4.9-mile stretch — ...

How did Ron Dean go from Chicago’s familiar face to Hollywood’s most consistent scene-stealer across decades? Check out his ...

1906: The Chicago White Sox — nicknamed the “Hitless Wonders” (manager Fielder Jones ‘ team hit .230, the worst in the American League during the 1906 season with only seven home runs) — defeated the ...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the Loyola Chicago team chaplain who rose to fame during the Ramblers’ 2018 Final Four run, died ...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain of the Loyola-Chicago men's basketball team, died Thursday at the age of ...

An Amtrak train headed from Milwaukee to Chicago crashed into a construction vehicle Sept. 21 in Lake Forest, Illinois, authorities say. The person operating the construction vehicle, a front-end ...

Illinois Department of Transportation officials returned to Rockford Sept. 18 to convince a skeptical public that Metra passenger rail service to Chicago is on the way. This is the third time ...

Illinois officials are working to restore Metra passenger rail service between Rockford and Chicago. The $275 million project is funded, with construction expected to begin in spring 2026. Service is ...

Delays are expected through midday on South Shore passenger trains due to a pedestrian being struck early Monday by a Metra train near McCormick Place in Chicago. Metra reported early Monday that ...

CHICAGO — A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train near McCormick Place Monday morning. The fatal incident involving a pedestrian and Metra Electric train No. 308 happened around 8 a.m.