Metra commuters leaving work for their homes in five DuPage County communities -- including Elmhurst Villa Park and Lombard -- will be given a lesson in railroad safety before and after being dropped off at their respective train stations Thursday Sept. 7.Villa Park Police Chief John Payne said his officers are participating in a multiagency railroad safety blitz that afternoon along with police in Elmhurst Lombard Wheaton and West Chicago. They have teamed up with the Illinois...

The train pulling 86 tanker cars was traveling from Chicago to New Jersey when 23 cars from its midsection derailed Friday in southwest Pennsylvania. At least nine cars leaked ethanol, also known a...

All passenger service was suspended on the South Shore commuter line Saturday morning after a train headed to Chicago collided with a freight train in Porter County, Ind.Two cars jumped the tracks in the incident, which occurred around 6:20 a.m. There were nine passengers and three crew members when the commuter train struck the freight train.No injuries were reported, but one woman was shaken up and taken to the hospital as a precaution and train service was suspended, said Jo...

A Metra train on the Rock Island District line heading from Joliet to Chicago struck and killed a 13-year-old Mokena boy as he was walking on the tracks Friday morning, officials said.

Papers from the Liberty Suburban Chicago Newspapers chain which includes The ReporterProgres s Newspapers were honored with nine awards Sept. 22at the 2006 Illinois Press Association Better Newspaper Contest luncheon.The honors all in the Class C more than 10000 readers category included three first-place awards.The Life won first place in the News Series category for its mulitple-story coverage of the March 3 sport utility crash into Berwyns Harlem Avenue Metra station which...

Tribune staff report Published October 25, 2006, 9:21 PM CDT Metra trains in the far northwest suburbs were delayed up to two hours tonight after a train struck and killed a boy riding a bicycle at the same ...Comment

CTA Green Line service has resumedafter a person was hit by a train. A short time later, another person was hit by a Metra train half a mile away, while an ambulance on way the the CTA incident crashed into another vehicle. Both train incidents appeared to be fatal.