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Exit of O’Hare, Midway chief leaves crucial vacancy for city, suburbs

By Marni Pyke
Feb 14, 2025 6:09 pm - Longtime CDA Commissioner Jamie Rhee, who led the city’s airports through COVID, big construction projects and noise issues, is retiring in mid-April.
Transit funding crisis coming to a head in Springfield

By Marni Pyke
Feb 11, 2025 6:23 pm - As public transit in the region faces a $771 million shortfall, Illinois lawmakers have introduced competing reform bills.
Financial differences slowing Union Pacific’s handoff to Metra

By Marni Pyke
Feb 10, 2025 6:02 pm - Metra will eventually take over operating the busy UP North, Northwest and West train lines, but for now the handoff is being delayed by financial issues.
CTA train service mostly restored on Green Line after derailment

By Marni Pyke
Feb 10, 2025 9:14 am - Riders had to be evacuated from the train by the fire department.
‘We get no relief’: Why is neighborhood miles from O’Hare enduring jet noise?

By Marni Pyke
Feb 09, 2025 9:00 pm - A Roselle man says noise from airplanes flying over his home on their way to O’Hare is so bad he can’t open his windows. Why is his neighborhood 20 miles from the airport dealing with excessive noise?
Recent aviation disasters cause fears about the safety of flying

By JOSH FUNK
Feb 07, 2025 2:16 pm - The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.
Trump official's directive tying transportation grants to birth rates could hinder blue states

By JEFF McMURRAY and SUSAN HAIGH
Feb 07, 2025 1:54 pm - Shortly after he was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy circulated a memo that instructed his department to prioritize families by, among other things, giving preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average when awarding grants.
Remains of all 10 people killed in Alaska plane crash have been recovered, authorities say

Feb 07, 2025 7:29 am - A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice, and all 10 people on board died, authorities said. The crash appeared to be one of the deadliest in the state in the last 25 years.
EVs, hybrids give spark to Chicago Auto Show

By Marni Pyke
Feb 06, 2025 8:22 pm - What’s hot at the auto show this year as industry deals with high prices, politics.
Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC

By JOSH FUNK
Feb 06, 2025 11:25 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.

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