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A Southwest Airlines jet approaches Midway Airport on Dec. 15, 2023.

Traveling through Midway Airport? Here’s why you may be delayed.

December 26, 2023 at 3:35 p.m.

Travelers who fly frequently into Chicago's Midway Airport are likely no stranger to flight delays. Through November this year, Midway had one of the highest rates of delayed arrivals among...

Detainees at the Cook County Jail pray during a Christmas Day mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2023.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich celebrates Christmas Mass with Cook County Jail detainees

December 26, 2023 at 11:12 a.m.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich spent Christmas morning with detainees at the Cook County Jail, telling them during Mass they were not alone, not forgotten. "Any time that we, in our...

Tom Carney, right, of the Chicago Department of Transportation, tours a Lake Shore Drive construction site with then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Feb. 12, 2019. Carney has been named head of CDOT.

Mayor Brandon Johnson names new transportation commissioner

December 22, 2023 at 4:09 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has appointed a permanent head for the Chicago Department of Transportation, four months after the last commissioner departed. Tom Carney, a longtime CDOT employee who had been...

Officials examine the CTA Yellow Line train after it stuck a snowplow on Nov. 16, 2023, near the Howard station in Rogers Park.

Yellow Line operator tried to brake before crashing into a snowplow on the tracks, preliminary NTSB report shows

December 13, 2023 at 1:17 p.m.

The operator of a CTA Yellow Line train hit the brakes in the moments before the railcars struck a snowplow on the tracks in mid-November, a preliminary report issued by...

Migrantes sale de un autobús después de viajar desde Texas, en el vecindario West Loop, martes 5 de diciembre de 2023 en Chicago.

Chicago empieza a demandar a operadores de autobuses ‘deshonestos’ que transportan a inmigrantes

April 15, 2024 at 3:38 p.m.

La administración del alcalde Brandon Johnson ha comenzado discretamente a presentar demandas por lo que ha descrito como "autobuses deshonestos" que transportan inmigrantes, una escalada que el alcalde ha combinado...

Migrants families traveling from Texas exit a bus after its arrival in Chicago's West Loop on Dec. 5, 2023.

Johnson administration begins filing lawsuits against operators of ‘rogue buses’ of migrants

March 11, 2024 at 12:16 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration has quietly begun filing lawsuits over what it has described as "rogue buses" transporting migrants, an escalation the mayor has coupled with an attempt to further...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle during a news conference spotlighting proposed solutions to the northeastern Illinois' transit funding crisis at the Old Post Office on Dec. 7, 2023.

Recommended changes to transit head to state lawmakers, who could debate expanded sales tax and consolidating agencies

December 7, 2023 at 6:36 p.m.

A sweeping set of recommendations about what Chicago-area transit could look like in the future has been sent to the state legislature, setting the stage for lawmakers to debate potentially...

Vehicles use the express lanes, left, and local lanes of the Kennedy Expressway moving inbound through afternoon traffic, Dec. 7, 2023, in Chicago.

Kennedy Expressway lanes to reopen, as first year of construction project ends

December 7, 2023 at 4:34 p.m.

Kennedy Expressway drivers heading toward downtown Chicago will get a reprieve from construction delays, as lanes begin reopening after nearly nine months of work. The reopening marks the end of...

The health system, that was formerly know as NorthShore — Edward-Elmhurst Health after a merger between NorthShore University HealthSystem and Edward-Elmhurst Health will now be known as Endeavor Health.

Combined NorthShore and Edward-Elmhurst health system to be renamed Endeavor Health

December 5, 2023 at 1:29 p.m.

Nearly two years after NorthShore hospital system and Edward-Elmhurst Health merged, the health system is getting a new name. The system formerly known as NorthShore — Edward-Elmhurst Health will now...

The accident scene where at least three people were critically injured on Nov. 16, 2023, when a CTA Yellow Line train crashed into rail equipment on the tracks in Rogers Park. The line remains closed.

CTA Yellow Line remains closed two weeks after crash, as investigation continues

November 30, 2023 at 7:05 p.m.

Ombre West usually takes the Yellow Line as part of her commute to Oakton Community College in Skokie. But the train line has been shut down since a crash on...

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