The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle.

A person was killed Saturday after a Metra train hit a vehicle on the Chicago's Northwest Side, officials said. The Metra ...

A Chicago development group has begun the process of planning to build its envisioned 31-story mixed-use building in downtown ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted ... Early in the month, a pedestrian was struck by a UP-North train near North Chicago, according to the agency. Feeling out of the loop?

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train Thursday morning in North Chicago. Metra officials confirmed a male pedestrian was hit and killed by an inbound Union Pacific ...

A man was killed Thursday morning when he was hit by a Metra train near the Waukegan-North Chicago border, a spokeswoman for the commuter rail agency said. The Lake County Coroner’s Office said ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train on the Union Pacific North line Thursday morning, between Waukegan and North Chicago, a Metra spokesperson confirmed. The age or identity of the ...