David Struett

The Center on Wednesday released its schedule of activities for its opening weekend on June 19-21. Many of the events are free, family-friendly and available to the public.

The commuter rail agency is adding four late-day train trips on weekdays and 18 more train trips on weekends. The Rock Island line will also phase out “flag stops.”

But before they reopen, crews will close the Ontario Street ramp from 11 p.m. Thursday until 5 a.m. Friday.

The retirement of the Regional Transportation Authority began Monday as it was granted new powers by the landmark Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act, which took effect.

The bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker's signature would classify e-devices that travel over 28mph as motor vehicles starting Jan 1, 2027 and subject those riders to the state's drunk driving laws.

Paramedics found the victims near Madison Street and Lockwood Avenue.

The vote to buy the South Loop property for $19 million further reduces the chance of Greyhound's eviction and kicking thousands of many low-income passengers to the curb. The ordinance a awaits City Council vote.

The deal also pumps millions of dollars into renovating the terminal — and saves the half-million people who use the station each year from potentially being kicked to curb-side bus service.

Sheriff Tom Dart is personally leading a transit task force, required by the newly enacted sweeping transit law, that will decide early next year

The 800 locked out workers say their livelihoods are at stake, as well at nearly one hundred union jobs that BP insists on laying off at the refinery in Whiting, Indiana.