Massive Hammond Bridge is coming down

Jan. 14, 2013
Construction workers on Monday began demolishing an eye-popping bridge in Hammond, Indiana.

RTA: United, American Airlines using 'sham' offices to buy fuel

Jan. 14, 2013
According to RTA, United Airlines and American Airlines are claiming they purchase their jet fuel from offices in Sycamore, Ill., when RTA believes they're doing business out of Chicago.

Blasting puts Miss. River in ship shape

Jan. 12, 2013
 Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River in southern Illinois.

Caterer to open cafes at 2 Chicago train stations

Jan. 12, 2013
Wilmette-based Butterfield Kitchen will operate cafes at the Roosevelt station serving the Orange, Green and Red Lines and at the Jefferson Park Blue Line station.

IL Tollway approves $125M for I-90 work

Jan. 11, 2013
The rebuilding and widening projects are scheduled to take place from 2013 through 2016. The work is part of the Tollway's 15-year, $12 billion capital program.

Why ban pickups from Lake Shore Drive?

Jan. 1, 2013
History suggests a Victorian-era prejudice against commercial traffic in Chicago parkways lurks behind a ban against pickup trucks on Lake Shore Drive. Should truck owners worry? And, where can they park, anyway? 

Illinois law takes aim at aquatic invasives

Dec. 28, 2012
The state fears bad boat hygiene is letting too many invasive plants and animals hitch rides around the Great Lakes, hence a new mandate to clean your boat.

Metra to install defibrillators on trains

Dec. 27, 2012
The Chicago-area's commuter rail agency is installing hundreds of portable, easy-to-use defibrillators on all of its trains.Metra is only the second major metropolitan transit agency in the country to make the machines available for use in the event a passenger suffers a cardiac arrest.In 2009,

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