Chicago Transportation

A monarch butterfly climbs on verbena blooms Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Oak Park. Land managers of rights-of-way throughout the area are increasingly implementing monarch-friendly practices such as installing native plants and mowing less frequently. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

As monarch butterflies head south, they’re getting an assist along utility rights-of-way, roadways

By Susan DeGrane

October 8, 2026 at 12:30 p.m.

The Illinois Department of Transportation, ComEd and other agencies are implementing practices along rights of...

Participants finish the Chicago Marathon on Columbus Avenue in Grant Park on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/baiduhai)

Chicago Marathon 2026: Course map, tips for spectators and participants — and how to drive downtown (or avoid it)

By Kori Rumore

October 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Chicago Marathon's 26.2-mile course is flat, fast and ready to welcome more than 55,000...

Visitors sit inside of a Gary Public Transportation Corporation all-electric bus on August 9, 2023. (Kyle Telechan for the Post-Tribune)

Gary council hears public comment on budget items before tabling

By Maya Wilkins

October 7, 2026 at 1:59 p.m.

The Gary Common Council heard public comment on several city budget items, but they unanimously...

Regional Transportation Authority Chairman Kirk Dillard speaks during an RTA board meeting in Chicago’s Loop on June, 1, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

RTA chair sends veiled warning shot to Mayor Brandon Johnson over CTA leadership

By Talia Soglin

June 11, 2026 at 1:01 p.m.

RTA board Chair Kirk Dillard made it clear in a letter sent to transit officials...

People run to catch the Green Line train at the Indiana CTA station in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on June 7, 2026. Charlie Clerk’s (aka "Tre") TikTok videos, which show him and other people decked out in costume catching CTA trains in the city, are branded “Catch The Train” and have garnered millions of views. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Dressed as bananas and dinosaurs, these costume-clad Chicagoans have gone viral for chasing CTA trains

By Audrey Pachuta

June 11, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

As a lifelong public transit rider, Charlie Clerk is no stranger to the age-old dilemma...

Several CTA train lines are experiencing weather-related delays

By Audrey Pachuta

June 10, 2026 at 6:44 p.m.

The CTA temporarily suspended Pink Line service between Polk and The Loop due to signal...

Mayor Mamdani (inset) reiterated his support for a ban on carriage horses in Central Park Wednesday — just hours after a horse collapsed and died at W. 72nd St. and West Drive Tuesday evening. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

Mamdani renews call for banning Central Park horse carriages after horse dies in park

By Evan Simko Bednarski

June 10, 2026 at 4:04 p.m.

Mayor Mamdani reiterated his support for a ban on carriage horses in Central Park Wednesday,...

A CTA Orange Line train passes above as Lincoln Park High School Junior ROTC cadets stand in formation for the Memorial Day Parade on Dearborn Street on Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Chicago. The CTA is reducing the length of train cars on the Orange, Brown and Purple Line trains during the weekends, although they will make exceptions for bigger events. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

CTA offers explanation for shortening some weekend trains

By Talia Soglin

June 9, 2026 at 3:09 p.m.

The Chicago Transit Authority is defending its decision to reduce the length of trains on...

Hundreds of cyclists stage a “die-in” in the 3100 block of South Halsted Street in Chicago on June 8, 2026, in memory of Chicago Department of Transportation employee Riley O'Neil, who was killed while cycling on June 5. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Riley O’Neil, bicyclist killed in Bridgeport crash, remembered at vigil: ‘People loved him’

By Talia Soglin

June 9, 2026 at 1:19 p.m.

A memorial bike ride and vigil was held for Riley O’Neil, a Chicago Department of...

Kay Worsham cleans her boat Sunday, May 31, 2026, in Dexter Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Fuel prices are shaping summer plans as US boaters get ready to hit the water

By Dee-Ann Durbin

June 8, 2026 at 10:42 a.m.

Recreational boaters, like motorists, are feeling a pinch from U.S. gas prices related to the...

Leo Diaz pays for parking at a Park Chicago box on West Fulton Street in the West Loop on May 27, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

A shot to fix Chicago’s parking meter deal? Aldermen test chances amid sale.

By Jake Sheridan

June 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Aldermen want to find ways to force a New York hedge fund aiming to buy...

Standing beside a map of the reconfigured 2nd Congressional District, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. speaks in support of an airport near Peotone during the South Suburban Cook County Community job fair in January 2012. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Documentary covers two decades of Peotone airport fight to open with free screening June 13

By Evy Lewis

June 7, 2026 at 5:05 a.m.

"Holding Pattern" covers the fight over the proposed Peotone airport, and will be screened at...

A food delivery driver walks to his minivan parked on the bike lane in the 3200 block of South Halsted Street Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Chicago, where a bicyclist was fatally struck the previous day by a truck after he was clipped by a parked motorist opening their car door and swerved onto the road, where he was struck. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Bicyclist killed in Bridgeport crash was CDOT employee devoted to bike infrastructure

By Talia Soglin

June 6, 2026 at 6:17 p.m.

A day after his death in Bridgeport, colleagues remembered Riley O’Neil as devoting his life...