The session highlighted the south suburban region’s integration of health considerations into project scoring. Transportation choices and...

The Fair Transit South Cook project will provide lower Metra fares on the Metra Electric and Rock Island lines and new service options...

The Cook County hearing is scheduled for Oct. 26 at 3:00 p.m. Preregister to make comments. The Will County hearing is scheduled for Oct....

Metra recently proposed a 2021 operating budget of $700 million that does not call for any fare increases or service cuts from present...

Image courtesy of Amtrak Stepping into Amtrak’s Homewood train station is like stepping back into a time when railroads were the...

Invest in Cook grants help municipalities further their transportation projects by covering the cost of planning, engineering,...

Both will be in jeopardy if Congress doesn’t provide more COVID relief funds, transit officials say. In an interview taped as part of...

IDOT’s virtual event will consist of their traditional welcome session followed by a series of five webinars. Topics for the sessions are...

Projects were scored and ranked according to our methodology In July-August, SSMMA sought public comment on the draft program. On...

Granite has begun work for a $13 million task order at the Homewood, Illinois Station as part of a Multiple Award Construction Contract...

Press release from the Regional Transportation Authority: The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) announced $195,000 in funding...

With the completion of the $3.5 million project, funded through the State of Illinois Bond Program, the station is now fully compliant...

Prepared by RTA staff in partnership with the CTA, Metra, and Pace, the draft framework is intended to improve transparency in how public...

Several changes have taken place since the last call for projects: Additional state funding is being set-aside for the ITEP program for...

As a result of an infrastructure package backed by Senator Elgie R. Sims Jr. (D-Chicago), the 17th District will see $258 million in...

The study will develop proposed improvements based on stakeholders’ input and examine the impacts that the proposed improvements will...

Mayor Robert Polk has been the village president of Burnham since 2005 and was the first African American man elected to a village...

SSMMA has released our Draft 2020 Call for Projects (CFP) lists for the Surface Transportation Program (STP-L)  on July 7, 2020. The...

FRA has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to make funds available for implementing suicide prevention projects.  The...

But the daily ritual of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, silently grousing about backpacks while looking down at your phone...