Joliet, Illinois stands as a testament to the fact that midwestern charm and affordability can still coexist in today’s inflated economy. Joliet’s historic Union Station and railway system connect the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2111 into law, creating the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) to oversee and streamline the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace, and ...

Next spring, the Joliet Slammers will play a game on the Old Joliet Prison baseball diamond where inmates used to play ball before the prison was shut down in the early 2000s. Joliet might be known as ...

Police investigate a fatal crash involving a man in his 20s who was struck by a Metra train near the Ingleside Metra station in the area of Washington Street and Rollins Road in Fox Lake Saturday ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A freight train hit a pedestrian in the west suburbs on Monday night, Metra said. Metra said the collision happened near Naperville. What led up to the crash was not ...

Except for St. Patrick’s Day parade trips, you don’t often hear spontaneous merrymaking on Metra trains. But when the agency debuted a prototype café car with free refreshments this fall, that’s ...

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a Metra train in Chicago's Lawn neighborhood, with the incident taking place near the Wrightwood Metra Station, WGN-TV reports. According to a Metra ...