Civic leaders are hoping transportation, community development and urban planning improvements will stay on track now that Chicago is not hosting the ...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 12.03.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago's dream of an Olympics-sized stimulus was dashed when the 2016 Summer Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, and the loss amoun...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.29.2009 | Chicago
Former Chicago Housing Authority chief Terry Peterson, who has emerged as one of Mayor Daley's closest political confidantes, is the mayor's choice to...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
CTA Board Chairwoman Carole Brown and her co-hort, Vice Chair Susan Leonis, resigned today, creating a leadership vacuum at the chronically-troubled m...
STNG | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
A CTA bus fatally struck a 51-year-old man Thursday night on the South Side....
Chicago Sun-Times | STEFANO ESPOSITO | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
An off-duty Chicago police officer allegedly beat a CTA bus driver so badly Saturday night that the driver was left unconscious, a representative from...
STNG | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
An off-duty Chicago Police officer is accused of assaulting a CTA bus driver last weekend after the driver cut him off while the officer rode his bicy...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
The CTA moved today to equip all 144 rail stations with security cameras....
Chicago Breaking News | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
One person was critically injured this morning when a CTA bus hit a light pole on the West Side, fire officials said. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
Kudos to the Windy Citizen for spotting this Budweiser commercial apparently shot in Chicago, mostly on the CTA Brown Line. Watch: ...
The Urbanophile | Aaron M. Renn | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
Both the current and former CTA presidents, Richard Rodriguez and Ron Huberman, said that Chicago has a good transit system (I agree) but deserves a g...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority is delaying the purchase of 140 new hybrid buses because funding has not been secured to complete the $122.7 million dea...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority board voted today to accept proposals to extend the Red, Yellow and Orange lines on the L system. ...
CBS 2 | Posted 09.10.2009 | Chicago
A CTA worker has now died following hospitalization for Legionnaire's Disease. ...
AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Under a new policy, Chicago Transit Authority bus drivers and train operators can be fired after the first time they're caught using a...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
The free extension for users of the CTA's Chicago Card Plus is coming to an end. Last month, after the CTA sent erroneous expiration notices to some...
AP | Rupa Shenoy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A man accused of transmitting on Chicago Transit Authority frequencies more than 300 times could have endangered thousands of lives, f...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A trade group that represents software and video game publishers sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Wednesday, saying a rule barrin...
Mike Doyle | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
The CTA president is leasing a car from the CTA to make sure he doesn't have to ride to work on his own agency's buses and trains. Are you kidding me?
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Looking to cut costs at a time the mass-transit agency is strapped for cash, CTA President Richard Rodriguez says he'll take away employees' free take...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Last year, after then-CTA President Ron Huberman introduced with great fanfare the cars with 12 or 14 fewer seats and announced plans to expand Maxis ...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago
The possibility of CTA service cuts has been taken off the table for this year, transit officials said Wednesday. ...
Chicago Tribune | Richard Wronski | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
Transit riders already have a choice of Red, Green, Blue, Brown, Orange, Yellow, Pink and Purple Lines, but a coalition of South Side activists also w...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
The CTA today trotted out the first of 58 new articulated hybrid buses purchased with federal economic stimulus funds....
Mike Doyle | Posted 08.03.2009 | Chicago
Maybe CTA President Richard Rodriguez should spend less time driving to work and more time attending to the system that 1.5 million riders a day depend on to get around Chicago.
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 10.04.2009 | Chicago