Adding capacity to the Borman Expressway without adding lanes is no easy task, but the Indiana Department of Transportation is working on it.
Project adds tech to make Borman safer; ramp metering, variable speed limits considered
Category: Transportation
After pullback, American Airlines says it will fly more out of O’Hare this year
The carrier will fly to nine new domestic and international cities from Chicago in 2025 and use larger planes, American announced Thursday.
Jobs cut at the FAA helped support air safety, a union says
President Donald Trump’s administration has said no one at the Federal Aviation Administration with a “critical safety” position has been fired as it cuts the federal workforce, but some FAA jobs that were eliminated had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors and airport operations, according to their union and former employees.
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
NTSB Yellow Line crash report finds CTA disabled a braking feature, contributing to collision
An NTSB investigation into a CTA Yellow Line crash found the transit agency’s decision to disable a braking feature partly caused the crash.
A pilot on a private jet owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil killed in Arizona aircraft collision
One of two pilots on a private jet owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil died after the aircraft veered off a runway in Arizona and hit a business jet, according to a Federal Aviation Administration incident report.
Chicago has not been immune from air traffic controller shortages in recent years
Air traffic controller staffing has faced renewed attention after a January plane crash in Washington, D.C. Chicago has not been immune from challenges.
Private jets collide at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, killing at least 1 person, authorities say
At least one person was killed and others were injured when private jets collided Monday afternoon at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, authorities said.
Here’s what we know about a commuter plane crash in Alaska that killed 10 people
Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea.
Today in Chicago History: ‘A slow-motion horror’ in the Loop kills 11 in CTA derailment during rush hour
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 4, according to the Tribune’s archives.