The Illinois General Assembly passed a compromise bill to fund public transportation, including CTA, Metra and Pace, with the ...

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch (D-Westchester) was at Chicago's Union Station Thursday morning to tout a ...

Coming into October, transit districts from Chicago to Springfield were staring down the side of a fiscal cliff. Costs are up ...

Illinois lawmakers approved a $1. 5 billion transit package, including long-delayed Moline-to-Chicago rail, hailed by ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $1.5 billion transit funding bill without large statewide tax increases that were previously ...

The The Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) Act comes as the RTA faced a budget gap of more than $200 million. State lawmakers approved new funding for public transportation agencies without ...

Illinois lawmakers last week signed off on a sweeping $1.5 billion transit funding package that reshapes how the CTA, Metra and Pace are run and funded. The plan also creates what’s called the ...

Chicago-area public transportation agencies won’t need to raise fares, cut routes or lay off workers next year after state ...

Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus deficit next year that would likely result in major cuts ...

Lawmakers hope to clear the transit bill Wednesday during the General Assembly's veto session, though it's not clear if ...

The bill would use tolls and gas taxes to expand rail and bus service. Republicans criticized the deal for taking money from ...