Following comments about the station, its past, and role for the future, Pritzker took questions from reporters on a variety ...

Chicago’s proposed transit overhaul leaves key problems intact, critics warn—jeopardizing integration, equity and oversight of multibillion-dollar projects.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed his seventh state budget, balanced as he promised with cuts, taxes and one-time revenue boosts but leaving for future months the battle over one major spending ...

The city is facing up to its own massive transit deficit, caused in large part, like Chicago’s, by the expiration of federal pandemic aid and exacerbated by ridership numbers ...

During a Tuesday news conference to celebrate Union Station’s centennial, leaders highlighted the station’s history, ...

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The Chicago mayor adding that there needs to be a sense of urgency after lawmakers failed to come up with a plan to fund mass transit.

Pace would be forced to eliminate all weekend service and all weekday service after 8 p.m. Mayor Johnson says there have been "conversations" around tax on wealthy for Chicago transit funding ...

A 2024 law change in Illinois is turning out to have ramifications for the fiscal cliff facing Chicago-area transit agencies.

With federal COVID-19 funding expiring at the end of the year, the transit agencies are facing a $770 million dollar shortfall in 2026. Without new funding from the state, the agencies have warned ...

Chicago’s plight mirrors transit disasters nationwide. Philadelphia’s SEPTA proposes 45 percent service cuts and a 9:00 p.m. rail curfew. San Francisco and New York face similar shortfalls.

Mayor Johnson suggests state lawmakers raise taxes on ultra-rich for transit funding Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday that he is hopeful lawmakers in Springfield will reach a transit ...