As of the latest update in that report, train No. 2140 was still stopped near Edgebrook while investigators and Metra personnel remained on scene. When a person is struck on the region's commuter rail ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra police have issued a warning after vehicle thefts and vandalism at Metra parking lots on the South Side. Metra said the most recent incidents involved cars in the Metra lots at ...

The racial disparity has raised some eyebrows, including those of State Rep. Kam Buckner, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation that allowed the transit systems to start suspending riders.

Police were investigating Tuesday after a freight train was burglarized in west suburban Bellwood, Illinois. This is far from the first time such a thing has happened. CBS Skywatch was over the scene ...

A brawl broke out on a Metra Union Pacific-North train Thursday night near Wilmette. Wilmette police confirmed officers responded to a fight on the train just before 9:15 p.m. Thursday. The incident ...

A Village of Bartlett employee was killed Monday morning when his snowplow was hit by a Metra train. The crash happened around 8:35 a.m. at Oak Avenue and Railroad Avenue. No injuries were reported ...

Commuters who take the Metra Electric and South Shore lines should expect delays after a train struck a pedestrian on Monday evening. Metra, in a post on X, said Metra Electric Train #143 was stopped ...

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A Metra train struck a 10-year-old boy’s bike, barely missing the boy, at Cedar Road crossing as the train was approaching the New Lenox station Monday evening, officials said. The train, Rock Island ...