Metra to boost Hyde Park service, cut some trains to Blue Island, South Chicago

The commuter rail service is also cutting midday express service between Chicago and Blue Island on its Rock Island Line after a yearlong pilot failed to attract enough riders. The changes affecting service to and from the South Side and south suburbs were announced at the agency’s regular monthly board meeting Wednesday and will start Sept. 11…Please click here to read Mary Wisniewski’s story in the Tribune.