Nothing compares to the terror felt when you dig around your wallet at the Fullerton L stop, only to discover that your beloved Ventra pass is nowhere to be found. Not only will you have to shell out money...
If you’re waiting for the Red Line in the coming weeks, you might notice a peculiar advertisement wrapped around the train cars: a message that, in big bold letters, declares the train cars the “Blood...
Carina Smith, Nation & World Editor
• January 14, 2019
The Chicago Transit Authority is still in the process of installing a number of new high-definition security cameras across the rail system following a number of incidences of criminal activity.
The...
He was born laughing.
Maria Quiroz, mother of DePaul student Ricardo Quiroz, said that her son will be remembered as someone who was always very happy.
Quiroz, 24, was struck by a CTA Red Line train...
The CTA is getting a new set of security upgrades funded in part from the city’s ride-hailing service fee, according to an announcement made Feb. 27.
The $33 million worth of improvements include upgrading...
Elon Musk wants to take a whack at solving one of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s most pressing transportation concerns.
After meeting with Chicago’s then-deputy mayor Steve Koch in Los Angeles, Musk tweeted...
Under the Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) new budget proposal, announced on Nov. 22, base fares could increase for the first time since 2009.
Both train and bus fares could increase by 25 cents...
Traffic inched at a snail’s pace along the packed highway as Amanda Alba and her sister drove to their classes at DePaul from the suburb of Oak Lawn. The car ahead moved up a few feet, then stopped....
Comparing the railroad bottleneck just north of Belmont where northbound Brown Line trains cross over Red and Purple Line tracks to “a traffic signal in the middle of a busy interstate highway,”...
More than 238 million people rode the ‘L’ in 2014, the highest number in over 50 years.
Yet it is also a number that could be affected dramatically with Governor Bruce Rauner’s recent proposal to...
Getting to and from the South Loop will be easier with the opening of the McCormick-Cermak stop on the CTA Green Line, just four blocks from McCormick Place and the soon-to-be DePaul Arena.
Before...
