On this episode, we examine how far high speed rail has come in Illinois. With 110 mile per hour trains running between ...

Newly exposed tracks and rail ties, excavated during construction, were part of what was once one of the world’s largest streetcar systems.

If you’re in Chicago, and you want to travel by mass transit between Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio in Oak Park and his Robie House in Hyde Park, your best bet is the Green Line. This elevated ...

Planning a weekend in Chicago is easy if you have a great list of things to do. Mixing famous sites with museums and great ...

1897: The Union Elevated Railroad constructs the elevated Loop, forming a network with several passenger rail lines already serving the city. 1900: The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal opens, reversing ...

Eventually the stock yards passed responsibility of the rail to South Side Elevated, which integrated the line into the city’s “L” system. That system opened in 1907 and contained three tracks: one ...

The Mellon Foundation grant would go toward design of a 2-mile walking trail along an abandoned elevated rail line that once ferried workers to the Chicago stockyards. The trail would be modeled ...

Chicago artists who took part in the public art exhibition “Track (ed) Changes” gather at the Ashland elevated station near the United Center, home to the Democratic National Convention. Their ...

Temperatures will be on the upswing Monday in the Chicago area, but those readings could come with an elevated risk of fires in the region.

Be advised if you want to get unlimited bus or elevated train rides once you reach the Windy City, you’ll need to pick up a $5 unlimited-ride pass from the Chicago Transit Authority that’s ...

As recounted by the history site Chicago-L.org, Yerkes first had the Lake Street Elevated Railway extended east to Wabash Avenue in 1895, followed by the east and west legs of the new Loop along ...

For much of its history, Chicago was a public transit-friendly town. The first horse-drawn streetcars appeared on State Street in 1859, and by the turn of the century the city had developed ...