Passengers say the journey on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief is worth it: no TSA lines, ground-level scenery spanning deserts and ...

Two people suffered minor injuries when the vehicle they were riding in was struck by a commuter train outside Chicago on ...

The 'peanut punch' took over the NFL. Wait until you hear about its inventor. Mamdani appoints convicted armed robber to ...

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the ...

Several tanker cars on a freight train derailed Friday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on the South Side of ...

A Metra train crashed into a car on Monday in west suburban Hinsdale, leaving the driver of the car with injuries.

A Chicago man is behind bars on an attempted murder charge after allegedly shoving a man onto the tracks at a CTA Blue Line ...

A new vision for passenger rail is on track in southeastern Wisconsin. The MARK Passenger Rail Commission held its inaugural ...

An 80-year-old woman suffered 'very minor' injuries after her SUV was struck by a train at an intersection in a Chicago ...

The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless the city tightens ...

CHICAGO — More evidence of the toll Amtrak’s aging locomotive and passenger car fleet is taking on operations was provided in ...

1907: Albert A. Michelson, the first head of the physics department at the University of Chicago, won the first Nobel Prize ever presented to an American (though he was born in Prussia) in science.