Department of Neighborhood Services issued a violation order to Union Pacific, owner of the train tracks behind South 15th Place. A month after the order's deadline, the garbage is now gone.

This is the second column of a two-part-series on the author’s recent trip to Israel. We are now up to the fourth day of my ...

Property taxes, while not the lowest in the nation (this is still Illinois, after all), are offset by the overall housing affordability, creating a more manageable total housing expense. Utility costs ...

Joliet, Illinois might just be the hidden gem you’ve been overlooking all this time. Nestled just 45 miles southwest of Chicago’s hustle and bustle sits a city that delivers metropolitan amenities ...

The CTA’s elevated State/Lake station in the Loop is scheduled to close Monday and not reopen for three years. The ...

Chicago police are searching for a man accused of committing an armed robbery on a CTA Orange Line train on the city’s ...

The Historic Pullman Foundation Model Train Experience is a way to expose people young and old to the hobby as well as ...

My four-day Amtrak ride from California to Washington, DC, taught me some great tips for long train rides, and I packed some ...

Each time someone boards a CTA bus or train, their chances of becoming a victim of or even witnessing any kind of violent crime that results in serious physical harm to a ...

A man was hospitalized after he was stabbed during an altercation onboard a CTA Blue Line train near the Loop on Sunday ...

A yearly tradition will make its return this week as Chicago-area residents can get free transit rides on New Year’s Eve.

In these final days of 2025, we're taking a look back at the people and stories that moved Chicago over the past 12 months.