According to a Metra social media post, BNSF train #1276 was traveling inbound from the western suburbs to Union Station when ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed Friday evening by an inbound Metra BNSF train at a Brookfield intersection near a suburban ...

MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. (WLS) -- A man trying to catch a Metra Rock Island Line train was struck and killed Friday morning in Midlothian. The horrible accident unfolded in front of a platform full of ...

A woman was hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after a Metra train struck a vehicle on the city’s Northwest Side, officials said.

I was just 50 ft away from one of the worst accidents I’ve ever seen Metra train hit a semi & exploded. Most of us got out of the way in time but several people did not make it ...

National Transportation Safety Board authorities are investigating Metra's first passenger death since 2005 after a train collided with a truck Wednesday at a crossing in Clarendon Hills.

Landsberg said the crossing handles 150 trains daily, around a hundred of them Metra commuter trains. The last fatal accident at the Prospect Avenue crossing was in 2017, when a pedestrian was killed.

All inbound and outbound train movement near Hickory Creek are currently halted, and extensive delays are anticipated, according to Metra. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. WATCH HERE ...

Savage recalled a Metra train striking a concrete truck and flames engulfing one car on May 13, 2011, in Mount Prospect. The truck driver died and 26 passengers were taken to hospitals to be treated.

Commuters faced extensive delays during rush hour on Friday morning after a car struck a bridge on the city’s Northwest Side, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Only on CBS 2 -- new concerns about a Mokena train crossing with a recent history of close calls. Days ago, new video surfaced showing what appeared to be another gate malfunction ...

When Metra Chairman Norm Carlson was handed an incident report detailing six fatalities in the first five weeks of 2017, he realized that officials could no longer keep silent about rail deaths, th… ...