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

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 has one of the largest transit systems in the United States, but despite its size, it has many flaws and challenges that prevent it from serving all Chicagoans equally and equitably. Transit 4 ...

Lawmakers scrambled this weekend to undertake a significant overhaul of public transit in the Chicago area, but ultimately were unable to pass legislation to address a looming fiscal cliff. That ...

CHICAGO -- Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year's budget, including drawing up plans for major service cuts and potential ...

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 ...

Several Chicago Transit Authority lines are down after a Yellow Line train derailed Thursday night as it approached the Howard Station on the city’s Far North Side.

Getting around Chicago has long been difficult for David Zoltan, but nonetheless he once would have jumped on a bus to get a bite to eat. He would take public transit to meet up with friends, and to ...