Amid calls for consolidation from Springfield, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and local sources and more RTA ...

People rallied in downtown Chicago on Saturday to advocate for public transit funding throughout Illinois as the state faces a multi-million dollar fiscal cliff. The city’s sprawling network of trains ...

Public transportation agencies are facing their own funding challenges as lawmakers explore new funding and reforms to Chicago area public transit agencies. Downstate agencies are asking lawmakers ...

The Plan of Action for Regional Transit asks lawmakers for $1.5 billion of new operating support for transit and at least $400 million annually of complementary capital investments.

CHICAGO — It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs. Public ...

Plan for Action for Regional Transit books on a table for guests during a news conference spotlighting proposed solutions to the northeastern Illinois’ transit funding crisis at the Old Post ...

SPRINGFIELD — Outside the busy systems of buses and trains moving about a million commuters around Chicago and its suburbs every day, 54 public transit agencies provide services throughout the ...

Recommendations may include changes to transit funding formulas and requirements for transit systems to make up at least half of their budgets from fares. In Chicago, the number is $730 million.

CHICAGO – Officials with the state's largest transit agencies met with lawmakers on Tuesday to sound the alarm for what Regional Transportation Authority Executive Director Leanne Redden called ...

Under an expected measure, Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace would combine into a single system in hopes of resolving funding issues, as well as providing more reliable and safer services.

CTA aims to cut bus wait times to 10 minutes 00:17. Later this month, waiting for a Chicago Transit Authority bus may not take so long. The CTA announced Sunday that it is adding service to eight ...

CHICAGO — It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs.