(The Center Square) – A former U.S. transportation secretary says Downstate Illinois residents should help fund Chicago transit, but a Metro East lawmaker disagrees. The Illinois General Assembly is ...

When the General Assembly met in late October for its veto session, one of the most critical matters on its agenda was passing legislation to pull the Chicago region’s mass transit system back from ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Friday it's halting billions in federal funding for Chicago, including a project to bring more accessible public transit to predominantly Black ...

Chicago-area public transportation agencies won’t need to raise fares, cut routes or lay off workers next year after state lawmakers approved a bill overhauling public transit, the head of the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday celebrated his enactment of a new law that advocates say will avert catastrophic service cuts on Chicago’s public transit systems and make the region’s trains and buses ...

As Illinois lawmakers head back to Springfield for the fall veto session, a $200 million ‘transit cliff’ looms large. Transit advocates are pressing lawmakers to pass a plan to fill the budget hole ...

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