The Chicago Transit Authority has revised its ridership figures upward for 2025.

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The coming fiscal cliff for mass transit in Chicago is starting to look less steep than originally predicted, thanks to a tax on e-commerce that took effect in January. The Taxpayers’ Federation of ...

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RTA Board Chair Kirk Dillard spoke to the City Club about the need for us to change the way we operate, fund, and govern mass transit. His comments and those included in Crain’s recent exploration all ...

CHICAGO – Cities and states across the country are reckoning with a major funding crisis for mass transit, and Chicago has become the latest city to fall off its “fiscal cliff,” failing to guarantee ...

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] The ...

Last fall, state lawmakers approved landmark transit funding legislation they say will transform Chicago-area public transit with the help of a planned sales tax hike and a diversion of a portion of ...

One asset that sets Chicago above most other U.S. metros is its mass transit system. The region’s buses and trains, largely abandoned in the early phase of the pandemic, are once again crowded, ...

Adam Harrington is a digital producer at CBS Chicago, where he first arrived in January 2006. Illinois state lawmakers spent hours on Thursday debating a proposal to overhaul the state's mass transit ...