How did the Chicago History Museum get the city's first elevated train car in the museum? Very carefully, as you'll see in this video. more ›

Three Purdue researchers theorized that transit systems across the country could learn a lot from negative tweets and set out to chart the levels of positive and negative tweets about CTA. more ›

An 18-year-old man was arrested for standing completely naked on the Howard red line el platform in Rogers Park on Wednesday evening. more ›

Taking a page from train robbers like Jesse James, four teenagers disabled a CTA bus, boarded it, beat the driver and robbed its passengers. How could that happen, and will it happen again? more ›

The first two of 11 Redbox kiosks have been installed at the Wellington Brown Line station and the Blue Line UIC-Halsted Station. more ›

The CTA's Holiday train has a few runs left, so we decided to put together a gallery of some of our favorite photographs of the train from the CTA's Flickr pool for your viewing. Until the train runs next year, enjoy. more ›

CTA was awarded a TIGER grant to repair the 3.5 mile slow zone stretch of Blue Line tracks between Damen and Belmont. more ›

CTA has a do-it-yourself transit info display that "makes it easy for anyone with some computer savvy" to put together a slideshow of bus and train route arrival times so that folks reliant on public transportation don't, for example, freeze their little piggies waiting for a caravan of Clark Street buses. more ›

The Chicago Transit Authority debuted the first of 706 new rail cars earlier this month, the first new modernization of the agency's rail line since 1992. more ›

If approved, the plan would be implemented in a couple of years and could serve as a model for a universal fare card for CTA, Metra and Pace. more ›

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is unhappy with the city of Chicago and the CTA, so she is taking matters into her own hands. more ›

This woman decided if she couldn't ride the bus south on Broadway, then nobody can. more ›

The Chicago Transit Authority announced the 2011 holiday train schedule. more ›

Jacob Van Order believes so, which is why he created QuickTrain, an iPhone app that allows users to quickly tap into the Train Tracker data stream in order to find out when the next train is approaching the station closest to their current location, and bookmark those stations they use most. more ›

'Tis the season to huddle around the glowing lights of the heat lamps on CTA platforms, one of those little things that make us love Chicago. more ›

Christopher Buchanan and Derrell Hughes were riding a southbound 146 bus holding hands and kissing when, according to Buchanan, a white woman approached the driver as the bus reached downtown to complain. more ›

The funds are from the state, which brings the total dollar allotment for project at $1 billion. more ›

If the front page to their feed means anything, CTA will probably tweet in groups of 3-5 tweets over a 20-minute period, then you won't see anything for another hour. more ›

Claypool held the line at not raising fares or cutting services in the $1.24 billion budget if - and this is one hell of an "if" - unions agree to work rule changes and deep cuts in management more ›

The new security cameras will round out the promised 1,500 extra security cameras at various train stations around the city. more ›

CTA can't change the vacation and sick time agreements with union employees, as they're dictated by collective bargaining agreements. more ›

We don't envy CTA President Forrest Claypool, who is going to have to make some tough decisions when he presents his first draft for next year's budget. more ›

The first station to get a facelift will be the Logan Square Blue Line station, where mayor Emanuel announced the initiative with CTA President Claypool and 35th Ward Ald. Rey Colon this morning. more ›

The platform at the Francisco stop is so bad CTA will spend between $150,000 to $175,000 to replace it starting in September. more ›

We wrote earlier today about how Mayor Emanuel likes to trumpet his accomplishments. Here's another one. more ›

If anything, Claypool sounded as though a fare hike may be in the cards for next year. more ›

Start planning accordingly: the Lawrence Red Line station will be closed from 5:30 and 9:45 p.m. tonight due to President Obama's birthday party/fundraiser at the Aragon Ballroom. more ›

RTA warns of service cuts if they don't receive the $400 million owed them by Springfield by next month. That's news to Metra and CTA. more ›

A blown fuse on the Red Line tracks near the Harrison Street Station has forced trains onto the elevated tracks from Cermak/Chinatown to Fullerton. Red Line commuters prepare for delays. more ›

Designer Dylan Allread looked to the "L" system for inspiration for this screen print spelling out "Chicago" with the colors of all the "L" lines except for the Skokie Swift Yellow Line. Allread writes, "The L is more than a train system for us here - it is Chicagoans Connecting (L)ine - it is our (L)ifestyle. I find no better way to portray Chicago than to use the transit lines of the L as if they were ink." more ›