A former employee is charged with murder in the 2023 attack at the LaSalle Blue Line station.
Family of man killed in alleged brutal Blue Line attack sues CTA
Category: Transportation
Motormouth: How often should I plug in my electric car?
Q: We recently purchased a 2023 EV Hybrid Toyota Rav 4 Prime, and we absolutely love it but have different opinions on how best to charge it.
Landmarks: Monee’s ‘Cut’ eased steam age rail travel to Chicago, but it came at a price
Landmarks: Monee’s ‘Cut’ along the Illinois Central Railroad eased steam age travel to Chicago, but it came at a price.
Grilled by aldermen over service and safety, CTA President Dorval Carter outlines bullish vision for the future
Carter outlined a goal to restore CTA train service to prepandemic levels this year
System outage causing Metra service disruptions, delays
The first notification shortly before 11 a.m. informed of a train scheduled to depart the 93rd Street South Chicago station at 10:45 a.m. that was delayed.
The story behind the design of Southwest’s new disturbingly skinny seats
Southwest Airline’s new seats have travelers vowing to fly Delta. The airline previewed a revamped cabin coming early next year in a video posted to TikTok, and commenters blasted the new seats as “lawn chairs” and “Ozempic seats” for their thin frame, and said they’d be booking flights with competitors. The seating was designed by […]
Toyota recalls 280,000 pickups and SUVs because transmissions can deliver power even when in neutral
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is recalling about 280,000 pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. to fix a transmission problem that can let the vehicles creep forward while in neutral. The recall covers certain Toyota Tundra pickups and Lexus LX 600 SUVs from the 2022 and 2023 model years. Also included are 2023 and 2024 […]
Metra set to buy its first battery-powered trains for use during off-peak times
The new trains, believed to be among the first of their kind in the country, will likely only be used on certain lines.
LA-bound United flight makes emergency landing at O’Hare following bathroom bomb threat message
A United Airlines flight headed to Los Angeles made an unplanned landing at O’Hare airport Wednesday morning after a passenger wrote in the plane’s restroom that a bomb was on the aircraft, another traveler said. United Flight 1533 took off from Newark, New Jersey at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and landed in Chicago just before 8 […]
Metra CEO pay hiked to more than $325,000
Metra board members authorized another pay raise for Jim Derwinski, as Metra faces continued low ridership.