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Right, Joy, the CTA elf, hands a candy cane to Elliot Walton, 6, a first-grader from Evanston. His sister Katie Walton, 4, and mother, Sharon Walton, are seen. Images of the purple line Allstate CTA Holiday Train on Dec. 14, 2018.

CTA Holiday Train will start rolling the day after Thanksgiving

November 22, 2019 at 1:34 p.m.

The popular Allstate CTA Holiday Train will roll again through Chicago, starting on the Green and Orange lines on Nov. 29, the Friday after Thanksgiving. Every year, riders can see...

Prep work begins at Juneway Beach in Chicago on Nov. 18, 2019, for a Chicago Department of Transportation and Chicago Park District lakefront stabilization project.

Following severe fall storms, a project to salvage Chicago’s disappearing shoreline kicked off on the Far North Side

November 19, 2019 at 12:14 p.m.

A project to salvage Chicago's disappearing shoreline kicked off Monday on the Far North Side, marking another effort to combat near-record high water levels and an onslaught of erosion. The...

A crowd surrounds monument of Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko in Humboldt Park on May 3, 1959, where more than 150,000 people of Polish ancestry marked the 168th anniversary of Polish constitutional government. Dominic A. Pacyga chronicles Polish Chicago history in "American Warsaw."

‘American Warsaw’ by Dominic Pacyga is an invaluable history of Chicago Polonia

November 19, 2019 at 2:00 a.m.

NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019: Through the end of the year, the baiduhai is revisiting books worthy of further recognition. "American Warsaw," a new history of Polish immigrants in Chicago...

A leading transportation advocacy group wants CTA, Metra and Pace to cut fares in half for low-income riders, at a cost of $175 million a year.

Fairer fares for the poor? Advocates want reduced Metra, CTA fares for low-income riders, but the costs would be high for transit agencies.

November 18, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

A leading transportation advocacy group wants CTA, Metra and Pace to cut fares in half for low-income riders, at a cost of $175 million a year. In a report called...

Metra trains thunder through railroad tracks heated by gas burners to heat up the switches and tracks for the winter's frigid temperatures and to keep the trains moving on Nov. 12, 2019.

Remember the polar vortex? From heated locomotive horns to beet juice, rail and road officials are preparing for the worst this winter

November 18, 2019 at 11:19 a.m.

Chicagoans have had to cope with winter early this year, putting on their puffy coats before Thanksgiving. Transit and road agencies are also pulling out their cold weather equipment early,...

A ride-share vehicle jumps ahead of a line of taxicabs in front of the Hilton Chicago on Michigan Avenue, Oct. 18, 2019.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accuses Uber, without offering proof, of trying to pay black ministers $54 million to defeat her ride-share tax hike plan

November 13, 2019 at 7:24 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday threw down the gauntlet in her fight with Uber, accusing the ride-share giant of offering to pay black ministers in Chicago $54 million to help...

Metra passengers head for a BNSF line train out of Union Station, Feb. 28, 2019, in Chicago. An Amtrak computer signal problem caused trains to be delayed throughout the day.

Rep. Dan Lipinski calls for Metra to take over Union Station from Amtrak after ‘disastrous’ service outage, falling concrete

November 13, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

After a "disastrous" service outage that delayed tens of thousands of passengers earlier this year and problems with falling concrete, Rep. Dan Lipinski wants Metra to take over control of...

Willem Kapteyn-Dekkinga, 5, stands with bicyclists as they line the faded bike lane in Chicago where a 37-year-old woman was struck and killed by dump truck on Nov. 6, 2019.

Chicago traffic fatalities are down so far this year. Is it luck, or is the city’s ‘Vision Zero’ policy making a difference?

November 11, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

More than two years ago, the city announced its ambitious "Vision Zero" plan with the goal of reducing roadway crashes and ultimately eliminating serious injuries and traffic deaths by 2026....

The city has amended its proposed ride-share tax to give wheelchair-accessible trips a break.

City tweaks ride-share proposal to trim tax on passengers who use wheelchairs

November 8, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

The city has amended its proposed ride-share tax to give people who use wheelchairs a break. The plan would lower the current 62-cent tax on those rides to 55 cents....

The dump truck that fatally struck a bicyclist is surrounded by police tape at the intersection of North Milwaukee and North Kilbourn avenues on Nov. 6, 2019. One of the bicyclist's wheels remains entangled under the truck.

Truck driver accused of negligent driving, improper turn in fatal bike crash that killed high school counselor

November 7, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

The driver of a dump truck who struck and killed a bicyclist Wednesday on the Northwest Side has been issued citations accusing him of negligent driving and making an improper...

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