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A man riding an electric bicycle contends with a car parked in a bike lane and a delivery truck on the street in the 1100 block of North Dearborn Street on June 27, 2024. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Downtown bike- and bus-lane ticketing program generates more than 3,500 warnings and violations in its first weeks

January 16, 2025 at 1:32 p.m.

The program allows the city to use cameras to mail tickets to registered vehicle owners for violations in an area that covers much of downtown.

Nora Leerhsen, Chicago Transit Authority chief of staff, at a CTA board meeting on Jan. 15, 2025. She's been named interim president of the CTA after Dorval Carter’s retirement at the end of the month. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

CTA chief of staff to become acting president after Dorval Carter’s retirement

January 15, 2025 at 5:14 p.m.

The next CTA leader will face the task of helping to rebuild trust in the agency, after years of complaints about service, personal safety and conditions on buses and trains

Chicago Transit Authority riders are seen on the platform of the Roosevelt Road station on Nov. 4, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

RTA proposes more bus and train service, fare hikes and stronger central agency as lawmakers prepare to debate future of transit

January 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard is expected to lay out a plan before the City Club as a contentious transit debate brews in Springfield.

Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter at a news conference Jan. 10, 2025, announcing the final part of federal funding for the Red Line extension project. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

CTA President Dorval Carter to step down

January 13, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

Carter's resignation comes as a debate brews in Springfield about whether to combine the CTA with Metra, Pace and the Regional Transportation Authority.

A Loop-bound Pink Line train passes in front of the Chicago skyline after departing the 18th Street CTA station in Pilsen on Dec. 12, 2023. (Talia Sprague/baiduhai)

Debate over the future of CTA, Metra, Pace, RTA to heat up in Springfield this year

January 12, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The clock is ticking on a financial cliff looming for the Chicago area's four transit agencies, and along with it efforts in Springfield to address the way transit is overseen...

A CTA Blue Line train tracker board on March 1, 2023. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

CTA discontinues use of some social media accounts, drawing consternation from users: ‘Embarassing’

January 6, 2025 at 5:01 p.m.

The agency said it made the decision to suspend use of the two accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, because changes to the site made the alerts less useful...

A CTA Red Line train sits below the current southern terminus near the 95th Street station on March 10, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

CTA to lock in federal funding for Red Line extension before Trump takes office

January 6, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

A large, nearly $2 billion federal grant, key to moving the $5.3 billion project forward, had been promised to the CTA but the formal agreement not yet signed.

Traffic on the outbound Kennedy Expressway at Chicago Avenue reaches heavy congestion at about 4:15 p.m., Jan. 3, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Chicago, once again, ranks among the worst in the nation for traffic congestion in annual report

January 5, 2025 at 11:01 p.m.

Roads are so snarled that the city once again ranked among the worst in the nation for the severity of traffic in 2024.

Iseoluwa Adegbite, 7, left, and mother Omotunde Adegbite, right, wait for the CTA 4 bus at East 63rd Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood on Dec. 10, 2024. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)

CTA says bus service is back to prepandemic levels. A new analysis shows which neighborhoods were slowest to get service back.

December 30, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.

Some neighborhoods were slower to get service back than others — and many that fared worst have high unemployment and low incomes.

A Cook County Jail detainee attends Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s Christmas Day Mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2024. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)

Cardinal Blase Cupich celebrates Christmas Mass with Cook County Jail detainees

December 25, 2024 at 5:36 p.m.

The Christmas morning Mass at the jail is an annual event for Cupich, who used it to remind the men that they were not forgotten.

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