Ava Hudson, left, celebrates her new job as a CTA bus driver with her friend, Madison McClendon, in January 2024.

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For the first time, the Chicago Transit Authority is providing data about which buses have been canceled each day so they don ...

The Twisted Spoke, a mainstay bar of the West Town community, is closing its doors after 30 years. The owner of Twisted Spoke ...

The school is floating ground leases for developers who can create a “college town experience” for Illinois’ only ...

The RTA can't order the individual transit agencies to raise fares, but it can reject their budgets. To address the looming ...

In the early 1890s, as Chicago prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition, there was a rush by private companies to build ...

Chicago is known for crime bosses like Al Capone, but the city is also home to two Chinese gangs that were once fierce rivals ...

Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) releases a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the final design and construction of the Austin ...

An Illinois state senator says he’s “all ears” when it comes to funding public transit, but he insists on $1.5 billion from ...

A city analysis warned the bill “would increase the city’s pension liabilities by more than $11 billion” in the two funds ...

The Lollapalooza festival brought thousands of people to Chicago from the suburbs, many who filled up Metra trains for the ...