Mary Wisniewski – Page 28

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker appointed a new Illinois Tollway board of directors at the end of last month. New governors typically name new leadership to the agency that oversees the state's toll roads.

Illinois Tollway has a new interim director after Rauner appointee exits

May 23, 2019 at 1:52 a.m.

Changes at the top continue at the Illinois Tollway with the departure of Executive Director Elizabeth “Liz” Gorman. Gorman, a former Republican Cook County commissioner who has led the Tollway...

An Amtrak Empire Builder train prepares to depart, March 28, 2017, at Union Station.

Amtrak wants more short-distance, city-to-city trains. But at what cost?

May 31, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

Chicago’s Union Station is one of Amtrak’s biggest hubs — you can travel almost all over the country from here. Riders can take the “City of New Orleans” to the...

The autumn/winter issue, 1923-1924, of The Little Review, now housed in Chicago Public Library's Special Collections.

The Little Review: Reflecting on the cultural influence of a magazine for modernists, made in Chicago in 1914

May 23, 2019 at 1:48 a.m.

In 1914, Chicago’s artistic world was hot. Theater companies and arts clubs were forming. Young writers, like Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser, came to the booming stockyard city from small...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's mobility task force developed guidelines to manage a multi-modal transportation system, with old technology like CTA buses interacting with new ways to travel like Uber and Lyft.

Next mayor should pick mobility chief to handle issues like electric scooters, self-driving cars: report

May 23, 2019 at 1:51 a.m.

The next mayor should have a chief mobility officer to handle issues like ride-share regulation and self-driving cars, as technology continues to change how we get around, according to a...

Congestion on outbound I-55 is seen from Damen Avenue in Chicago on Aug. 9, 2018.

A tax on how much you drive — could it happen in Illinois?

May 8, 2019 at 10:53 a.m.

The Illinois gas tax was last increased in 1990, from 16 cents a gallon to 19 cents. In that year, East and West Germany reunited, Nelson Mandela left prison and...

Paul Gregoire, Illinois Department of Transportation chief of construction, discusses work on the Jane Byrne Interchange as IDOT holds a public open house March 7, 2019, at UIC.

Lengthening delays on Jane Byrne Interchange project force more explanations from IDOT: ‘This is new ground for us’

March 8, 2019 at 11:26 a.m.

Officials for the Illinois Department of Transportation on Thursday acknowledged that they could have communicated better with the public about delays involved in the Jane Byrne Interchange project, and said...

Cubs fans wait to board a southbound Red Line train at the Addison station in 2017. The station typically has about 9.200 passenger entries on weekends, the CTA said. The station will close from 10 p.m. March 8 to 10 p.m. March 10 and again March 29-April 1.

CTA’s Red Line stop at Addison to temporarily close this weekend

May 23, 2019 at 1:50 a.m.

The CTA is temporarily closing the Red Line station at the busy Addison stop this weekend as it starts some big repair work. The rail agency plans to replace track...

Why is the Jane Byrne project taking so long? IDOT records offer clues. So could a public hearing.

March 7, 2019 at 7:07 p.m.

If all had gone as planned, the remake of the Jane Byrne Interchange could have been done by now. Instead, drivers continue to face snarled traffic, closed lanes and bountiful...

Extra Metra trains, some of which couldn't get into Union Station, are parked Feb. 28, 2019, at the BNSF railroad yard near the 1200 block of South Canal Street in Chicago. An Amtrak computer signal problem caused trains to be delayed throughout the day.

‘Human error’ — an Amtrak worker fell on a circuit board — blamed for Thursday’s Metra mess at Union Station

March 1, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

The commuting debacle at Union Station on Thursday was caused by Amtrak’s decision to upgrade its servers during peak service hours and a worker falling on a circuit board, which...

Normal rush Friday morning for Metra, day after signal problems strand, delay 60,000 commuters at Union Station

May 23, 2019 at 1:49 a.m.

Metra and Amtrak service returned to normal for the morning rush Friday, a day after more than 60,000 Chicago commuters either had long waits or had to find another way...

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