Gia Biagi, the state's new acting transportation secretary, quit as commissioner of Chicago's Transportation Department shortly after Mayor Brandon Johnson took office.

Gia Biagi, Illinois' acting transportation secretary, focuses on accelerating the Kennedy Expressway project and related IDOT construction efforts.

On Monday, dozens of Barrington High School students and community members gathered next to the downtown Metra train crossing to remember Marin.

Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and local sources and more RTA control.

As head of the city’s transportation department, she prioritized ... neighborhood is a little bit different in Chicago, every community in Illinois is a little bit different,” she said.

Through Project Sidewalk, launched in Knox County in November 2024, residents can report problem areas as they encounter them.

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of enslaved people who became wealthy because of the institution of slavery. His Indian Removal Act forced more than 50,000 Native Americans off their ancestral homes, opening up the land for white settlement.

As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s defense lawyers began their closing arguments last week, attorney Dan Collins pointed to something the former speaker said when he took the witness stand earlier this month.

The Chicago Transit Authority says the $1.9 billion in federal funding it’s been promised for the Red Line Extension should be secure, despite the Trump administration’s sweeping freeze of grant money Tuesday.

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

The US DOT has granted a one-and-a-half-year extension to use $177 million in federal funds for the proposed passenger rail line connecting Moline and Chicago.

School districts prepare students with developmental disabilities, but after graduation, skills and potential are lost as Chicago families try to figure out the next steps. Here are stories about those families and tips for others facing similar challenges.