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Metra's board scrapped its decade-old rotation rule and unanimously picked Romayne Brown, a former CTA rail executive, as chair.
The Thorn Ditch project can now hold over 3.8 million gallons of stormwater across two village parks.
The Northwest Neighborhood Alliance hand-built two blue and yellow benches at bare CTA stops — and now they're waiting to see if Chicago tears them out.
Twenty aldermen want Smart Streets made permanent and CDOT shielded from budget cuts after Riley O'Neil's death on Halsted Street.
Crews began work this week on the 837-foot span between Liberty Village and Pizza Hut. The bridge should open by late summer 2027.
The plan targets dangerous downtown intersections and a Gartner Road bike lane residents have long asked for.
Workers dug up a rock the size of a small garage 30 feet beneath O'Hare. Now Chicago wants your name ideas.
One Uber driver says he's lost up to $500 a day waiting his turn while others cut the line on the Kennedy shoulder.
Two Chicago alderpeople want to strip the historic Cortland Street Bridge's protections after its closure stretched past a year with no end date.
A $12.9 million sewer overhaul will detour cyclists and walkers near Kane County's Government Center for two months.
The heat-stuck bascule bridge was rated intolerable and functionally obsolete two years before it jammed near Grand Avenue.
Nashville, Charlotte and Phoenix are among the routes vanishing from O'Hare this September as Frontier reshuffles its Chicago schedule.
A trailing pilot spotted the shredding tread and warned air traffic control before Flight 3280 could take off from O'Hare.
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