ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Just before midnight Saturday, Illinois legislators passed a record-high $55.1 billion Fiscal Year 2026 budget, which includes funding for the long-gestating Rockford to ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - A Dubuque group is working to reinstate passenger rail service connecting Chicago to Dubuque, hoping to transform the more than three-hour drive into a train ride. Paul Uzel, a ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

Chicago’s commuter rail is moving to raise fares to help offset a budget gap that threatens to upend the region’s transit service. Metra, the commuter rail system that shuttles commuters between ...

Union Pacific Railroad sued the Commuter Rail Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, doing business as Metra, this week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.