The Latest Breaking News from CTA

Chicago cannot thrive without a safe and attractive public transportation system for all. Our economic, cultural and social survival depends on getting us where we need to be.

Too often, we have seen extremist elected officials making veiled anti-Jewish statements and pursuing racist policies. We must not become desensitized to these attitudes.

By 2025, Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to have a “robust outdoor air quality monitoring network” and also is pushing for a big emissions cut by 2040.

Logan Square has been gentrified. The neighborhood that once was frowned upon and considered a high-crime area occupied by minorities is now a hip place to live.

Anti-violence activist Tio Hardiman calls on city, CPD to collaborate with volunteers amid rising crime on CTA trains.

Metra, CTA and PACE immediately say masks will no longer be required onboard trains and buses.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plans to reserve 75% of gas cards for residents of South and West Side neighborhoods defined as “high-mobility hardship.”

Even for a regular rider, a trip into an urban American subway system long has involved a leap of faith. The systems are, by definition, subterranean. The third rail, a metaphor taken from the ground-level electricity used to power subway cars, implies danger in all fields.

A witness told officers that two people began arguing and then fighting on a train late Tuesday morning, police said.

Among those killed as 17-year-old Lee Carter Jr., who was shot while standing in the driveway of a home in the 9500 block of South Sangamon Street, police said.

The man, 31, was arguing with another passenger on a CTA bus in the 700 block of South Pulaski Road about 12:15 a.m. when he was shot in the right leg, police said.