The crash happened before 8 a.m. near Main Street in Downers Grove. Metra said BNSF train #1228 was stopped after the crash. A village spokesperson said the Main Street train crossing would be closed ...

Union Pacific Railroad has made some progress in its effort to transfer three of its commuter rail lines to Metra control.

A Metra BNSF train fatally struck a pedestrian Tuesday morning near the Downers Grove station, causing extensive delays during rush hour. It was the second consecutive day a pedestrian was hit by a ...

CHICAGO — The family of a young journalist struck and killed last summer in Hegewisch has sued Metra. Metra, who owns the ...

This is the second BNSF Metra train to hit a pedestrian in Downers Grove in 24 hours. Just after 4:30 p.m. on Monday, a train ...

Trains on the Metra BNSF line were halted just in time for the afternoon rush Monday, after a train hit a pedestrian in Downers Grove, Illinois. Inbound and outbound trains were stopped near the ...

“The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst,” wrote American Enterprise Institute ...

Are you a grower that identifies as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, female, disabled, a veteran, or has farmed for less than 10 years? Illinois has $28M to buy food at fair market value from YOU! Products will be ...

You’ve probably seen Justus Roe’s murals around Chicago.

Metra has donated F40C No. 614, one of just two such surviving locomotives, to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM says in a ...