CHICAGO (WLS) -- A derailed freight train at 123rd Street on the city's Far South Side is causing delays on the Rock Island Metra main line that travels to Joliet. Thursday afternoon outbound trains ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Metra’s board of directors gave their approval Wednesday to a nearly $9 million plan to completely renovate the 115th Street-Morgan Park station on the the Rock Island Line. The depot ...

ROBBINS, Ill. (WLS) -- One person was hospitalized, after a Metra train hit a vehicle in the south suburbs Monday afternoon. The male driver of the vehicle was taken to Christ hospital, Metra said.

Once a symbol of progress and pride, the Rock Island Line carried the heart of American industry across the Midwest. Its collapse wasn’t just the end of a railroad—it was the moment the nation turned ...

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Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company-- the Rock Island Line-- was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast ...