City bus service could speed up with proven reforms, but Chicago politics and governance incentives block the changes that ...

The Chicago Transit Authority elevated station, which serves the Brown, Green, Purple, Orange, and Pink lines, is 130 years ...

From The Who's ironic roar to Chicago, EWF and ’80s icons, one superfan’s top 2025 concerts and a plea to see rock legends ...

As many readers know, I’m on a mission to see all my music heroes live before they depart the stage for good – and to urge you to do the same. This year, my message is: Hurry up, because the curtains ...

Hordes of federal immigration agents came into the city, and a new pope came out of it. Sun-Times and WBEZ journalists had ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGN) — Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on Tuesday that created a new regional transportation agency and helped the State of Illinois avoid diving headlong off a fiscal cliff ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Train known as the “L” makes a turn on the system’s “Loop” in downtown Chicago on Sept. 10, 2025. A yearslong effort to overhaul and improve funding for Chicago’s public ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation pumping $1.5 billion per year into Chicago-area transit agencies and instituting a new oversight system, ending years of debate over how to govern and finance the ...

After years of “fiscal cliffs and “doomsday scenarios,” Chicago transit now has a financial lifeline from Springfield. On Tuesday at Union Station, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a sweeping ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new transit funding bill on Tuesday. Illinois lawmakers passed a compromise bill to fund public transit in October, delivering $1.5 billion in new funding for mass ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Federal Transit Administration sent blistering letters last week demanding the mayor of Chicago and Gov. JB Pritzker submit a new security plan for the Chicago Transit Authority ...

BEING SAID. SARAH. YEAH, THEY’RE DEMANDING MORE MONEY FOR BUS SERVICES, NOT JUST FOR MAJOR CITIES OR EVEN JUST HERE IN LANCASTER, BUT FOR EVERYONE ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA. THE GROUP OF ABOUT 30 PEOPLE ...