CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra Electric trains are facing extensive delays Wednesday evening. Metra reported there were wire issues. The electrical engineering department is working to repair the wires ...

The RTA anticipates that without any further action, Metra, the city’s commuter rail system, would need to end service for the Electric Blue Island Branch and the bus agency, Pace, would have to ...

and Metra Electric line’s Blue Island branch would be eliminated altogether. Pace wouldn’t cut any routes, but it will end all weekend service and significantly reduce service on express routes.

The city of Blue Island has issued a temporary emergency closure for a local bar following violence outside the business over ...

According to a 5:25 a.m. post from Metra, BNSF train #1200 traveling from the western suburbs to Union Station in Chicago was ...

The city of Blue Island temporarily shut down a bar following what officials are calling a “violent incident” outside it over the weekend. Harry’s Long Bar, 13115 S. Western Ave., ...

South Shore Line passengers the weekends of May 3-4 and May 10-11 will be bused between Metra's 18th Street Station and Millennium Station as a result of construction work being done to accommodate ...

Blue Island voters supported limiting the number of gaming cafes, but were split on whether to make Western Avenue a two-way street between 127th Street and Grove Street in nonbinding advisory ...

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a Metra train in the west Chicago suburb of Westmont Tuesday evening. The Westmont Fire Department reported that it was called at 6:31 p.m. for a westbound Metra ...

IN EUROPE, there is a 'blue island' home to a pier full of paintings, inspired by a sailing tradition to quell superstition. Faial, located in the Azores archipelago, was created by the eruption ...

Inbound and outbound Metra train UP-N trains are running with extensive delays after a pedestrian was fatally hit by a train Friday afternoon on the North Side. According to Metra, the pedestrian ...

Some Metra trains in and out of multiple Chicago suburbs were delayed early Wednesday morning after a pedestrian was struck. According to a 5:25 a.m. post from Metra, BNSF train #1200 traveling ...