Transportation
Illinois State Police said the three-vehicle crash happened before dawn Sunday morning, prompting road closures until around 9:15 a.m.
The mayor says Tom Carney, who’s been in the agency for more than 20 years, is leaving his post to focus on family. He’s the latest among a string of Johnson’s leaders to leave.
The pass costs $2.50 more than a typical Metra day pass and allows riders to access the CTA, Metra and Pace.
Balbo Drive is the first street that will be shut down, starting Thursday morning, from Columbus Drive to DuSable Lake Shore Drive, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation.
Suburban commuter trains were stopped near Berwyn shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday after an Amtrak train struck a pedestrian, Metra said. The pedestrian’s condition was unknown.
Inbound and outbound trains on the Metra BNSF line were delayed when another train hit a vehicle about 2 p.m. near LaGrange Road. Metra trains on the BNSF line were only running between Chicago and Berwyn, and from Aurora to Fairview Avenue in Downers Grove.
Adam Taju, Hasina Taju and Altaf Hasuian Patel were among the more than 240 people killed when an Air India flight bound for London crashed, their Des Plaines relatives said.
The new locations announced Friday bring to 34 the number of speed cameras installed by the city this year.
Young people, people with disabilities and others reliant on public transit would suffer if Chicago’s regional transportation services sustain big cuts, say listeners to WBEZ’s Reset podcast.
A vote scheduled for Thursday was pushed until Monday, giving time to alderpersons on Thursday to press ride-hailing company representatives more on a proposed ordinance that would pay drivers while they worked the app — even when there isn’t a passenger in their car.
The driver, a 24-year-old man, struck the pole around 2:30 a.m. in the 7400 block of South Wabash Avenue, Chicago police said.
An Uber spokesman told City Council members Wednesday morning, in a special committee hearing on the matter, that the company refunded all riders after realizing it misapplied a congestion tax outside of the designated hours.
The unidentified man died on the scene about 9 a.m., police and the CTA said.
The right lane of southbound I-55 near Illinois 53 was shut down at the time of the crash, 3:20 a.m., and remains closed, officials said.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has “paused” contract awards to Builders Paving LLC, prompting a lawsuit from the suburban road-building company that says it was the low bidder on more than $21 million in projects the agency won’t formally award.
The man, 42, was arguing with someone at the Clark/Lake street platform when the person lunged at him with a sharp object, Chicago police said.
“You all know my position. The ultra-rich continue to get away with not having to put more skin in the game,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters during Tuesday’s weekly news conference at City Hall.
Lawmakers depart Springfield without funding $770 million needed to cover holes in regional transit agencies’ budgets. CTA officials said Monday they would soon begin planning cuts for their 2026 budget. The agency did not say when those cuts could be finalized.
IDOT recommended using the Blue Line, Pace and Metra’s Union Pacific Northwest Line to avoid traffic congestion. More ramp closures are coming.
It’s unclear if lawmakers will approve the $770 million needed to cover transit agencies’ budget holes in 2026 when federal pandemic aid runs out. But the feared 40% “doomsday” service cuts are not certain — at least not yet.
The woman, 61, was struck while walking in a westbound lane near Kostner late Sunday night. Lanes were closed until 4:30 a.m. Monday.
Legislation to reform mass transit around Chicago passed the Illinois Senate 32-22 shortly late Saturday, but the measure — and its proposed $1.50 tax on food and package deliveries — never got out of the station to the House floor.
The fatal incident happened when the person, of an unknown age and gender, came in contact with the electrified third rail, officials said.
Legislators were seemingly on board with the latest plan to reform the Chicago-area transit system — but miles apart on how to fund the CTA, Metra and Pace to avert a $770 million fiscal cliff.
A new construction configuration — starting 10 a.m. Sunday, weather permitting — is happening a month ahead of schedule, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Ignore the false messages, and don’t click on any links, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias warned.
United last flew out of the New York airport in 2022.
A new proposal looks to address reforms concerning security and how the mass transit agencies are managed.
Chicago Transit Authority employees who processed cash and coins from buses and trains worked only three days a week since March 2020, but were paid for five days of work, according to a state inspector general’s investigation. Their bosses knew, but did nothing about it.