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 ...

A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a freight train Friday afternoon near Lake Forest, causing delays for Metra Milwaukee District North and Amtrak Hiawatha lines. Lake Forest police ...

Trains on Metra’s Milwaukee District North Line have been halted Friday afternoon near Lake Forest after a freight train struck a pedestrian, Metra said. Inbound and outbound trains are impacted, ...

The Itasca Fire Protection District is building a second station. Bensenville is rethinking how it dispatches police cars and ...

Some are named after freight railroads ... such as the Southwest Service, or how trains are powered, like the Metra Electric. And the “Heritage Corridor” was chosen to reflect the nearby ...

The Metra Electric line is named after the type of locomotive pulling the trains. And its three Union Pacific lines are named after the freight company that will soon no longer operate the line ...

“Many [lines] are named after freight railroads that used to or still operate the service,” Metra said in a news release, “while some are named for directions, or how trains are ...

Construction work—performed by the commuter railroad’s in-house crews; employees of its freight partners ... begin replacing 16,562 ties and 22,666 feet of rail between Mokena and Joliet, it said.

Metra settled on the location for its new Woodstock rail yard — the farmland near the existing Union Pacific Northwest Line ...