On Tuesday afternoon, five Cook County sheriff's police officers and a social service worker set off to patrol the West Side ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A man has been convicted of murder and robbery in connection with a deadly shooting aboard a CTA Red Line train in 2022. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said a jury convicted ...

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway on Friday morning after a fight led to a stabbing on a CTA platform on the city’s North Side overnight. According to Chicago police, the incident unfolded just ...

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Washington, D.C.’s Metro Board of Directors has voted to approve a plan to modernize the Metrorail Red Line fully and convert all its trains to driverless, automatic systems. “Metro has led the ...

More than six decades after the idea to extend the Chicago Transit Authority's busy Red Line first surfaced, the extension took concrete steps toward reality on Friday. The first shovel-fulls of earth ...

Trains without drivers, and a screen door between passengers on the platform and the train they're waiting for? It's within reach after Metro's board approved a new plan that would, among other things ...

WASHINGTON - The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board is expected to vote Thursday on a $913 million budget plan that includes a proposal to fully automate Metro’s Red Line, the ...

The order is a major victory for the residents of Chicago’s Far South Side, said Nora Leerhsen, CTA acting president, in a statement. “CTA promised the community that it would fight for the RLE, and ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release $3 billion in funding for the CTA's Red Line extension and other projects. The U.S. Department of Transportation withheld the funding last ...

The CTA sued the Department of Transportation over withholding billions of dollars for the Red Line extension, saying development would come to a halt if that funding continued to be frozen. Earlier ...