‘First in the country’: Metra to showcase game-changing battery-operated passenger train
The trainsets initially will be deployed on the Rock Island Line, where they’re expected to improve air quality as Metra retires older diesel locomotives.
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Time to roll up your sleeves as flu, COVID-19 and RSV season looms
Here’s the latest on the outlook for flu, COVID-19 and RSV from public health veterans and info on what vaccinations are available.
Revamped Metra board picks familiar face to lead group
A revamped Metra board chose a familiar face as leader amid conflicting messages about regional unity and divides.
‘A perfect storm of problems:’ Feds dig into gate flaw and crew fatigue in deadly Elgin train crash
Issues with crew fatigue and warning signal flaws have surfaced as federal authorities continue to probe a fatal freight train crash in Elgin last fall.
Suburbs would control Lake Michigan water supply under $6B plan
DuPage and Cook county leaders announce a project that would give suburb group control of supplying Lake Michigan water to suburbs.
Illinois tollway imposes 57% hikes on cars and 30% for trucks, with more to come
A massive rate increase in 2027 with additional hikes every two years sailed through the Illinois tollway board of directors Wednesday.
Who’s driving the train at Metra? Directors coming and going as transit reforms gel.
Multiple Metra directors signed off at their final board meeting last week as turnover related to transit reform legislation starts materializing.
Forever toll increases? Some question rationale of tollway’s plan to raise rates every two years
For some Illinois drivers, the sticker shock of a nearly 60% toll increase proposed for 2027 has obfuscated inflation-related hikes set to recur every two years effective 2029, if approved.
‘It’s horrible’: One worker rescued from Downers Grove storm sewer, another found dead after torrential rain
Downers Grove officials said that their rescue effort had become a recovery operation after a worker remained missing in a sewer.
US Sen. Tammy Duckworth pushes legislation to close ‘challenge’ for riders with disabilities
Dozens of Metra and CTA stations are inaccessible for riders with disabilities, records show. “It is a real challenge,” explained U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a veteran who uses a wheelchair...