Amid calls for consolidation from Springfield, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and local sources and more RTA ...

Public transportation agencies are facing their own funding challenges as lawmakers explore new funding and reforms to Chicago area public transit agencies. Downstate agencies are asking lawmakers ...

People rallied in downtown Chicago on Saturday to advocate for public transit funding throughout Illinois as the state faces a multi-million dollar fiscal cliff. The city’s sprawling network of trains ...

The Plan of Action for Regional Transit asks lawmakers for $1.5 billion of new operating support for transit and at least $400 million annually of complementary capital investments.

With no revenue resolution yet in sight, the service agencies — the CTA, Metra and Pace — need to begin contingency planning now.

CHICAGO — It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs. Public ...

Plan for Action for Regional Transit books on a table for guests during a news conference spotlighting proposed solutions to the northeastern Illinois’ transit funding crisis at the Old Post ...

Recommendations may include changes to transit funding formulas and requirements for transit systems to make up at least half of their budgets from fares. In Chicago, the number is $730 million.

CHICAGO – Officials with the state's largest transit agencies met with lawmakers on Tuesday to sound the alarm for what Regional Transportation Authority Executive Director Leanne Redden called ...

Under an expected measure, Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace would combine into a single system in hopes of resolving funding issues, as well as providing more reliable and safer services.

CHICAGO — It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs.

Public transit has become an increasingly contentious issue in Chicagoland as the Regional Transportation Authority — the funding body which oversees Pace suburban bus routes, Metra regional ...