Not that many transit executives can shift from spreadsheets and scheduling to operating a train in a pinch. Retired Metra ...

A brawl broke out on a Metra Union Pacific-North train Thursday night near Wilmette after Windy City Smokeout came to an ...

As COVID-19 relief funds run out, transit agencies across the U.S. are coming to the edge of a fiscal cliff and scrambling to ...

OVG was also at the center of the county's year-long debate in 2022 over privatizing management of MetraPark that included ...

Union Pacific also released a letter from its CEO Jim Vena to Metra CEO Jim Derwinski, which said, among other things, that UP will impose the new rates on July 1. “While we would rather have an ...

LIBRARY RECEIVES STATE GRANT The Hinsdale Public Library received a $26,658 grant from the Illinois Secretary of State to support services, programs and materials. The office awarded $226,662 in ...

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, met Wednesday with Metra CEO Jim Derwinski and other leaders of the transit agency to discuss surface transportation reauthorization priorities.

Metra's $1.1 billion proposed budget is 'status quo,' CEO says The commuter rail agency faces a $226 million deficit in 2026 when federal COVID-19 dollars end.

During a Senate Transportation Committee hearing Tuesday, Regional Transportation Authority Board Chair Kirk Dillard looks at the heads of Chicagoland's transit agencies: Metra CEO James Derwinski, ...