With costs soaring to $1 billion a mile, Greg Hinz says the CTA’s Red Line extension demands a serious reset — and real ...

The last major el expansion, the Orange Line, was built 30 years ago; if you had to pick the most urgent project to get Chicago through the next 30 years, it's doubtful the Red Line extension ...

Anyone who’s ever been stuck on a stopped el train knows it’s not a pleasant ... But an analysis by NBC 5 shows that it does happen on Blue Line trains more than all others.

And Chicago established “el” service in 1892 ... has the distinction of being the first electrified elevated line in the country, according to noted rail and streetcar historian Herbert ...

Parts of the CTA Blue Line are set to temporarily close ... which runs near Union Station and the University of Illinois at Chicago. That stretch was also closed earlier in the summer as part ...