When you board an American long-distance train, you are trading airport routine for entry into a locomotive-driven realm ...

With the right policies to support investment, innovation and regulation, Chicago can remain the nation's freight hub for ...

Though the sight is familiar to many Chicagoans, folks braving their first Midwest winter or those who’ve never seen the phenomenon may be surprised to see small fires burning along Metra railroad ...

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

A CTA Brown Line train hit a car in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood.

Editor's Note: A person of interest was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. Our latest update can be found here. Our original story continues below. A woman is in critical condition after police ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack, alleging he poured gasoline on a woman and chased her through a Chicago train car before setting her ...