According to a Metra social media post, BNSF train #1276 was traveling inbound from the western suburbs to Union Station when ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed Friday evening by an inbound Metra BNSF train at a Brookfield intersection near a suburban ...

A brawl broke out on a Metra Union Pacific-North train Thursday night near Wilmette after Windy City Smokeout came to an abrupt end due to weather.

But in reality, that train could be moving 20, 30, 40, 50 miles even up to 60-70 miles in some part of the area. So, trains are very fast," Price said. Next week is National Rail Safety Week.

Landsberg said, since 2017, there have been more than 500 incidents at train crossings in Illinois, 81 of them fatal. In DuPage County, there have been 28 train crossing indicents during that time ...

A spokesperson for Metra described what was shot as the tail-end of a safety check. Metra said, earlier in the day, someone reported the crossing bar was down with no trains in sight.