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Federal funding for the Red Line extension is on hold amid Trump’s review of diversity-based contracting, but transit experts ...

Local news reports said Manhattan School District 114 sent a letter to families saying an eighth grader had been killed.

A 13-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck by a semitruck Monday afternoon in Manhattan, Illinois. Police and fire officials responded to the intersection of State and East North around 5:35 p.m. and ...

Hope now rides with the Illinois General Assembly to provide state funding that could prevent rail and bus service cuts.

Chicago is suing the Trump administration over “unlawful conditions” placed on federal grants that would force the city to ...

Chicago is expanding a pilot program using cameras to catch and ticket drivers blocking bus and bike lanes in parts of ...

The Chicago Department of Transportation has closed three bridges across the Chicago River for reconstruction. With the impact on traffic near downtown, rush hour has drivers seeing red.

The "sanctuary" state of Illinois allocated more money in its 2025 budget to cover free healthcare for illegal immigrants than it did for the state's road ...

Metra announced fare hikes in its 2026 budget, part of a broader regional policy requiring the Chicago Transit Authority, ...

Speaking at a "No Kings" rally in Washington, D.C., Bill Nye, the former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy," urged lawmakers ...

New rules would require Chicago to certify it doesn’t operate any DEI programs or lose tens of millions in funding.