Transportation
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Revamped Metra board picks familiar face to lead groupSep 16, 2026 12:57 pm - Metra directors chose a new board leader Wednesday amid conflicting messages about regional unity and divides.
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O’Hare, Midway again ranked below average in customer satisfaction survey
Sep 16, 2026 11:00 am - Chicago’s airports have again ranked below average in an annual customer satisfaction survey released by JD Power.
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Big Bertha? Dolly Dolostone? How you can name giant boulder found at O’HareSep 14, 2026 5:17 pm - At 50 tons, the behemoth boulder unearthed during construction at O’Hare International Airport recently is no mere rock.
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Arlington Heights hosting virtual forum on Campbell projectSep 14, 2026 12:29 pm - The Arlington Heights Public Works and Engineering Department is hosting a virtual public forum through Sept. 28 for the Campbell Street Reconstruction Project.
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From the Chicago suburbs to short line railroad companies, proposed merger heightens concerns
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Amazon suspends use of 21 Air, the cargo carrier whose plane careened off Miami runway and killed 5
Sep 14, 2026 7:31 am - Amazon said Sunday that it has suspended its partnership with 21 Air after one of the cargo carrier's planes loaded with Amazon packages careened off a Miami runway last week and killed five people.
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‘People are in danger’: Wheaton residents urge action to install traffic light at risky crossingSep 13, 2026 3:32 pm - Residents of Marian Park apartments in Wheaton are demanding a traffic light on Roosevelt Road after 28 years of accidents, including three fatalities and 11 pedestrian injuries.
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She told him ‘she loved him’: United Airlines remembers 9/11 crews who perished as suburbs mark 25 yearsSep 11, 2026 4:31 pm - Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the grim events are still personal for many airline employees who worked that fatal day.
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‘A fresh start’: NITA board gets to work, picks chair to lead new transit agencySep 10, 2026 10:37 am - The Northern Illinois Transit Authority’s choice of an interim executive director caused some pushback Thursday.
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Something special in the air: Flight attendants reunite to mark 4 high-flying decadesSep 06, 2026 5:32 pm - Forty years after graduating, eight American flight attendants have enough stories to fill a novel and no regrets. The close friends reunited in August to mark their anniversary by working a flight together from O’Hare to Dublin.