Police activity on the CTA Red Line as led to trains to be rerouted to the elevated tracks between Fullerton and Cermak/Chinatown. The police activity is at the Roosevelt Red Line subway station.

According to police, the incident unfolded just before 4:30 a.m. on a CTA Red Line train as it approached the Red Line ...

CHICAGO - Red Line service on the CTA was disrupted this morning after police activity at the Roosevelt station prompted ...

A significant overhaul of public transit in the Chicago area to address a looming fiscal cliff stalled in the House over the weekend.

The fight to save Chicago’s transit system is a fight for the city’s public infrastructure. Without it, the region’s economy will wither, inequality will deepen, ...

A representative from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning presented the organization’s Plan of Action for Regional Transit, aiming to address the transit system’s impending 2026 ...

Chicago’s mayor-run system carries some 85 percent of the area’s transit trips—but would lose control under a regional reorganization to suburban and state appointees, disenfranchising the ...

State lawmakers remain focused on reforming Chicago mass transit as they discuss two bills to either merge the agencies or empower the Regional Transit Authority. But legislators have all but ...

The “doomsday scenario” for the future of Chicago’s transit system is coming into sharp focus: a $770 million budget deficit threatens thousands of jobs, sweeping service cuts and a crater ...

How the CTA Map Got Its Colors. Navigating Chicago used to be a lot less colorful – not in terms of the characters you might meet on the train or the art you can spot at many CTA stations, but with ...

Chicago’s transit system, by comparison, only experienced about 200 delays each month with a wait time of 10 minutes or more in September, November and December.

Become a paid member to listen to this article. How do you best represent the complex New York City subway system on an easy-to-read map? That's a challenge John Tauranac has been working on since ...