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The Illinois Tollway's 2016 budget calls for spending $1.4 billion on construction projects.

Rauner OKs Tollway’s construction plans

August 18, 2019 at 6:37 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has given the Illinois Tollway the greenlight to proceed with more than $1 billion worth of rebuilding and widening projects this year, officials said Wednesday. The projects...

A Pace bus uses a bus-on-the-shoulder inner lane on the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) in 2011. That program and other bus rapid transit options are being considered for the whole Chicago area.

Pace unveils plan for ambitious $2.3 billion Rapid Transit Network

August 18, 2019 at 6:37 p.m.

A wide-ranging network of suburban bus routes could transform the way people commute and shop, connecting people to job centers in Naperville, Elgin and Elk Grove Village, according to an...

Derrick James, 48, tests proposed new seats for Metra trains on display at Chicago's Union Station last year.

Survey: Most Metra riders like new coach seats, despite being non-flippable

August 18, 2019 at 6:36 p.m.

To flip or not to flip? That's the question. The answer, according to a survey of Metra customers, is that most riders are OK with the installation of new, more...

A Metra train passes gas flame switch heaters at the Western Avenue stop Jan. 6. Metra says delays caused primarily by mechanical problems have dropped by more than half since last year, to 43 from 113 during the first 11 days of January.

Delays a problem, but fewer late trains than 2014, Metra says

August 18, 2019 at 6:46 p.m.

Metra's on-time performance so far this year has been subpar, with roughly 1 in every 10 trains late for its destination, but the agency says it learned from last winter's...

Work continues Nov. 13, 2014, on the rebuilding and widening of the Fox River Bridge on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Elgin. Some bridge reconstruction projects are on hold as the result of an executive order issued Monday by Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Rauner order stymies Tollway contracts

August 18, 2019 at 6:46 p.m.

Major interstate highway projects worth millions of dollars around the Chicago area have been put on hold as a result of an executive order from Gov. Bruce Rauner to halt...

RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard, shown here in March, 2014, wants to address funding issues at the agency.

Consolidate CTA, Metra, Pace or scrap RTA, report concludes

August 18, 2019 at 6:34 p.m.

The Regional Transportation Authority should either be strengthened into a superagency to coordinate all Chicago-area transit service or be eliminated entirely, leaving the CTA, Metra and Pace to fend for...

A broken water pipe has caused flooding at Chicago's Union Station for the second time this week.

Union Station hit by broken pipe for 2nd time in a week

May 22, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

A broken water pipe has caused flooding at Chicago's Union Station for the second time this week, officials said. "About 4 p.m. we had another break in the sprinkler system,...

A Metra train at the Western Avenue station in Chicago where flames heat the switches as temperatures hovered in the single digits on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015.

Metra says it will work all night for smooth morning commute

May 21, 2019 at 2:54 p.m.

Metra says it will have personnel on duty overnight Monday to help ensure that trains will run on time during the morning rush hour Tuesday, despite the expected snow and...

New year brings 40% toll hike for truckers in Illinois

August 18, 2019 at 6:31 p.m.

Three years after tolls for passenger cars nearly doubled on the Illinois Tollway, higher rates for trucks have finally arrived as well, with both increases paying for a record-setting, multibillion-dollar...

One of the apps being tested could be used as a "guest pass" by out-of-state motorists or infrequent Tollway drivers to pay their tolls by smartphone.

Tollway testing apps to give travel info, pay tolls by phone

August 18, 2019 at 6:28 p.m.

The Illinois Tollway is testing two smartphone applications intended to provide timely travel information and pay tolls, officials said Thursday. The mobile app called SafeTrip would furnish current traffic alerts...

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