Sarah Freishtat

Vehicles pass through out of service coin toll booths at the River Road Illinois Tollway plaza off of I-90 and I-294 on Feb. 26, 2021.

Tollway to resume issuing fines for drivers with unpaid tolls

March 31, 2023 at 12:16 p.m.

Illinois Tollway drivers with unpaid tolls had a reprieve from fines for several years, but they are now set to return, with changes from the pre-pandemic fine program. In 2020,...

A stairwell at the CTA Blue Line LaSalle Station on March 25, 2023, in Chicago. A man was beaten on the stairwell early Saturday and died.

CTA employee charged with battery after alleged Blue Line beating, death

March 28, 2023 at 7:46 a.m.

A Chicago Transit Authority employee has been charged with aggravated battery, accused of beating a 54-year-old man at a Blue Line station who later died, the Chicago Police Department said....

Norfolk Southern has been pursuing its $150 million plan to double the size of its intermodal freight yard at 47th Street and the Dan Ryan.

Moving hazardous chemicals by train is far safer than trucks, says top regulator who pushed merger and wants more freight moved by rail

March 26, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Not even the toxic fireball over an Ohio derailment could shake Martin Oberman's belief that railroads are a safer way to move hazardous chemicals, and most other freight, than long-haul...

Traffic during the morning rush hour crawls along just east of where the Kennedy and Edens expressways merge, as a three-year construction project is set to begin on the inbound Kennedy expressway on March 21, 2023.

Traffic backups begin as Kennedy construction gets underway, and it could get worse

March 21, 2023 at 2:02 p.m.

Many Chicago-area expressway commuters got little relief from construction congestion, as traffic began to back up on the first day of a three-year rehab of the Kennedy Expressway — and...

Bob Israel, left, a lifelong Englewood resident who has been involved in efforts to oppose Norfolk Southern's Englewood rail yard expansion, tours the empty lots and massive mounds of debris along Normal Boulevard near 57th Street in Chicago, where effects of the railroad's efforts to expand are visible on March 16, 2023.

Norfolk Southern derailment brought the company under scrutiny, days after it won approval for Chicago expansion

March 21, 2023 at 2:42 p.m.

Last month, Norfolk Southern won Chicago City Council approval to move forward with construction on a massive, long-planned rail yard expansion near Englewood. Two days later, a Norfolk Southern train...

Traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, looking south near North Ogden Avenue on March 17, 2023. A major, three-year project to upgrade the Kennedy Expressway and overpasses between the I-94 split and Ohio Street will kick off Monday.

Construction set to begin that will snarl Kennedy Expressway traffic through 2025

March 18, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Construction on the Kennedy Expressway is set to begin Monday, likely causing major delays for drivers for nearly three years. The $150 million project will take place along a 7.5-mile...

A long line of tanker cars sits along the tracks above Irving Park Road just east of York Road on March 15, 2023, in Bensenville. The cars were being pulled by a Norfolk Southern engine followed by one from Canadian Pacific.

Congressmen, suburbs, Metra disappointed in federal approval of merger expected to bring more freight trains to Chicago area

March 15, 2023 at 6:25 p.m.

Federal regulators have approved a major rail merger expected to bring more freight trains through parts of the Chicago area. The move will create the first rail line linking Canada,...

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