Broadway In Chicago and Metra have announced a new promotion tied to nine productions playing in Chicago this summer. The offer allows ticketholders to ride Metra free to and from the theatre on the ...

Metra commuter rail service will run for another ten years on host freight railroad BNSF’s Chicago-Aurora line, following the successful renegotiation of terms for a new contract, the railroads ...

BNSF Railway has reached two significant commuter rail agreements: a 10-year extension with Metra for Chicago-area service and a tentative deal with Colorado for a new Denver–Fort Collins route. The ...

The Metra Board of Directors last month approved two settlements worth a combined $43 million for victims of a 2020 collision involving a Metra train, a car and a teenage pedestrian, who died as a ...

Following the discovery, Metra service was halted near the scene at the Aurora Transportation Center. Did Hegseth quote fake Bible verse from Tarantino movie? Separating fact from 'Pulp Fiction' This ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A freight train was robbed on Chicago's West Side on Tuesday afternoon, a Metra spokesperson said. BNSF trains were halted due to police activity near West 19th Street and South ...

Total revenues for the fourth quarter decreased 3% and were relatively flat for full-year 2025 compared with the same periods in 2024, according to BNSF. The fourth quarter decrease, it said, “was ...

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CICERO, Ill. - Metra trains were briefly stopped in both directions after a vehicle struck a bridge Thursday morning in Chicago's western suburbs. What we know The collision happened around 6 a.m.

METRA service on the BNSF line was disrupted Thursday morning after a vehicle struck a bridge Thursday. As of 7:30 a.m., the METRA website posted service had resumed and inbound and outbound trains ...