As the extreme cold rolls, Metra is reducing its schedules, with less trains on all lines on Friday.

There might be speed restrictions due to the cold, and “extra personnel will be deployed … to address mechanical and track ...

Large crowds of commuters trying to get home amid brutally cold weather in Chicago crowded Union Station after a second day ...

Metra will be operating its popular Holiday Trains—specially decorated trains filled with holiday characters—on five rail lines this December. Tickets for the trains will go on sale at noon on Nov. 17 ...

CHICAGO — Metra is extending its Family Fares to all travel and offering special holiday passes for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, it announced Tuesday. Metra’s Family Fares allow up to three ...

Holiday Trains Return: Metra’s festive Holiday Trains will run on five rail lines this December — Metra Electric, BNSF, Milwaukee District West, Rock Island, and Union Pacific Northwest — featuring ...

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Inbound and outbound Metra BNSF trains are back on the move Monday, after an inbound Metra train hit a vehicle in Hinsdale, the commuter rail said. Hinsdale police shared video on Facebook of the ...