Metra stalwart Don Orseno announced Friday plans to retire in December as the agency's board of directors launched a "nationwide" search for a replacement CEO. The former train engineer was chosen as acting executive director in August 2013 amid tur...

A Des Plaines man who died in a motorcycle accident Wednesday in Hanover Park is remembered as dedicated father who loved his two daughters. John Baske, 57, was thrown from his motorcycle after striking a curb on the 1700 block of Lake Street about ...

GE Healthcare said Thursday it is moving hundreds of jobs from Barrington to downtown Chicago. The exact number of jobs is not being disclosed. The workforce will combine with an existing Chicago office at 500 W. Monroe and will include softwar...

Longtime suburban residents won't forget the crash 22 years ago that killed seven students when a train hit a school bus in Fox River Grove. The result of that crash and others like it was an intensive focus on rail crossing collisions that helped d...

A sobering surge in fatalities along Metra tracks has the railroad talking publicly about the problem and committing to prevent suicides and accidental deaths in 2017. Railroads don't typically discuss the subject, Metra Chairman Norm Carlson said W...

Raza Haq moved to the U.S. from India more than 20 years ago and decided “A Day Without Immigrants” was a perfect way to show solidarity with others who followed similar paths. He closed his Grill Effect Restaurants in Lisle and Wheaton on Thursday,...