CHICAGO -- Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year's budget, including drawing up plans for major service cuts and potential ...

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SPRINGFIELD — A new funding plan for public transportation surfaced Thursday evening without new taxes on entertainment or package deliveries that were part of previous plans. Instead, the measure ...

Philadelphia’s experience is a cautionary tale. One recent estimate suggests that home values near transit could fall by nearly $7 billion; that means a slashing of tax revenue that funds schools, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois lawmakers will return to Springfield next week hoping to resolve a major unchecked box from the spring: Keep the trains in Chicago running. As the spring legislative ...

CHICAGO – Cities and states across the country are reckoning with a major funding crisis for mass transit, and Chicago has become the latest city to fall off its “fiscal cliff,” failing to guarantee ...

This fall promises to be a decision point in the effort to save Chicago-area transit agencies from broad service cuts. One is the October deadline for the transit service boards' fiscal 2026 budgets.

A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train waits at the Forest Park, Illinois station for the eastern journey to downtown Chicago on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. [AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast] The ...

SPRINGFIELD — With the clock ticking down to avert an impending public transit fiscal cliff, Illinois Democrats in the predawn hours Friday muscled through a $1.5 billion plan that diverts revenue ...

Transit agency officials in the Chicago area have formally begun the process of planning for next year’s budget, including drawing up plans for major service cuts and potential layoffs. It’s the ...