Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
/ February 16, 2020
Three Red Line stops on the North Side have been closed for the past few weeks because of the CTA’s Red and Purple Line Modernization project.
The Bryn Mawr, Thorndale and Granville stops are closed...
The Chicago Transit Authority’s holiday train will soon roll into service.
The six-car train decorated with holiday scenes, lights and LED displays will begin service Friday on all CTA lines. Santa...
A recently paroled armed robber is being held without bond in the stabbing death of a man aboard a Chicago Transit Authority train.
Tony Polk is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 54-year-old...
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....
