Passengers walk toward their Metra train at Union Station last year. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share How Metra named its 14 suburban commuter rail lines made little sense. Its two “Milwa ...

A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a Metra train in Downers Grove, Illinois Tuesday morning. According to Metra officials, an inbound BNSF train hit a pedestrian around 7:30 a.m. in Downers Grove.

A Metra train struck a pedestrian near the Main Street Railroad Crossing in Downers Grove Tuesday morning, according to Downers Grove officials. It is the second day in a row a pedestrian has been ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra is phasing out the names for some of its lines, and wants to hear from its riders. The commuter rail is phasing out the Union Pacific North, Northwest and West lines.

Suburban Metra trains were stopped in Downers Grove and delays were expected Tuesday morning after a train on the BNSF line headed to Union Station in Chicago struck a pedestrian. A Metra ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- A pedestrian died after being struck by a Metra BNSF train on Tuesday morning, the agency said. The crash happened at about 7:30 a.m. near Main Street in Downers Grove.

Metra’s trains on the Milwaukee District North Line were halted Friday afternoon in the north suburbs after a freight train fatally struck a man in his 70s, according to the Lake Forest Police ...

Metra officials have halted service through the BNSF corridor and are warning commuters to expect extensive delays. Monday, a pedestrian was struck just after 4:30 p.m. by an eastbound train near ...

One of Metra’s SD70MACH locomotives pushes a Chicago-bound Milwaukee District North train through Deerfield, Ill., on Feb. 25, 2025. David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra is having “great luck” with its fleet ...