Metra is expanding the schedules of two western lines starting Monday, Sept. 8. Find out which lines will be affected and ...

The Illinois General Assembly has yet to pass a transit funding bill. This committee wants to add passenger rail funding.

The region acts as the gateway to the Northeast corridor, but activists have called for better connections to Chicago.

Quad-Cities leaders create new committee to renew push for Moline-Chicago passenger rail ...

Amtrak ridership on Chicago’s regional routes is climbing faster than other U.S. corridors, boosted by new service to Minneapolis-St. Paul.

A man was seriously injured when a freight train hit a car in Harvard, Illinois, early Thursday morning. According to the ...

A federal appeals court has approved Illinois’ ban on carrying firearms on public transit, reversing a lower court decision ...

This weekend is the Trains, Planes, and Automobiles Festival in Geneseo and there’s plenty of fun in store for the 19th ...

The driver in the truck was taken to Lutheran General Hospital following a collision with a train early Saturday morning in ...

Police said a woman and a dog were struck by a Union Pacific North railroad line Metra train. Police said both died at the scene. It appeared the female pedestrian was crossing the tracks when she was ...