Metra officials said UPNW train #717 was scheduled to arrived at Harvard at 5:20 p.m., but hit a vehicle in Norwood Park at ...

The first word in the Association of American Railroad’s annual Rail Industry Outlook is “uncertainty,” as a slew of economic ...

what could be better than a Metra locomotive painted in honor of the Milwaukee Road? The sleek, modern MPI locomotive is ...

The Elgin City Council has approved a $2.5 million contract with ATI Restoration to demolish and clear the eight-acre ...

BRIAN NADIG A Norwood Park woman was killed at about 3:50 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, when an outbound Metra train struck her ...

USA: Chicago commuter operator Metra's legacy 900 MHz communications system is to be upgraded to the dot16 standard, in what ...

An initial survey of residents of the “Tent City” homeless encampment in Elgin found that 36 individuals are interested in ...

In the wake of two fires that destroyed eight structures, the city of Elgin is considering a plan in which the people living in an 8-acre “tent city” along the Fox River would be moved into ...

Railroad tracks shared by Metra and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Southern Railroad bisect the area. The site has been used for encampments by persons experiencing homelessness since a ...

It’s not an entirely new concept, but it has been gaining favor over the past three decades. It’s through-running: the ...