The City of Miami was a vibrant orange and palm green streamliner of the Illinois Central Railroad. Operating between 1940 and 1971, the train provided service from Chicago to Miami, and was powered ...

STEPHENSON COUNTY, Ill. (WIFR) - An estimated $1.1 million project to upgrade a rail crossing near Lena is approved by the ...

Metra on Monday acknowledged the confusion and began a public outreach effort that could potentially rename all of its lines ...

A man was hit and killed by a CTA Blue Line train after he fell onto the tracks on Sunday night. Around 9 p.m., Chicago ...

The last interurban car left the Illinois Terminal Railroad's Alton depot in March 1953, marking the end of the electric car ...

Deerfield, says he's hopeful a bill making its way through the Statehouse could make daylight saving time permanent, but ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was killed after being hit by a CTA Blue Line train Sunday night, Chicago police said. The incident occurred at about 9:06 p.m. at the Western Avenue platform on the Forest Park ...

One of the best days of the Illinois high school sports calendar has arrived. It’s super-sectional Monday for boys basketball ...

Gov. JB Pritzker announced a $300 million pitch in February to make an old prison site and four other vacated state ...

Metra has launched a survey to get feedback on potentially renaming lines to make the system “easier to understand for new ...

A change in the operation on three of Metra’s lines is giving the agency an opportunity to rename all 14 lines, and the ...