The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to ...

B oth inbound and outbound Metra trains on the Union Pacific North line have been halted near North Chicago on Thursday morning due to a pedestrian being struck by a train, Metra has announced on ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

Sun-Times file Share Metra trains were moving again after a train struck a person Thursday morning near North Chicago. The person — only identified as a male — was fatally struck by inbound ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train Thursday morning in North Chicago. Metra officials confirmed a male pedestrian was hit and killed by an inbound Union Pacific ...

A man was killed Thursday morning when he was hit by a Metra train near the Waukegan-North Chicago border, a spokeswoman for the commuter rail agency said. The Lake County Coroner’s Office said ...

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle.

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...

The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...