Legislators were largely in agreement Thursday on the new governance structure of the proposed new Northern Illinois Transit Authority to oversee the CTA, Metra and Pace — but funding proposals ...

A hiker who fell 30 feet down a waterfall and into a pool in Butte County had to be harnessed to the end of a 150-foot rope and pulled out by a helicopter over the Memorial Day weekend, according ...

Northern Illinois Food Bank’s 13th annual A Taste That Matters fundraiser and culinary event, presented by Jewel-Osco, raised more than $430,000 which translates to over $3.4 million worth of ...

That bill, instead, focuses on reforming the structure and governance of the Chicago area's mass transit system, and would replace the RTA with a new organization called the Northern Illinois ...

The proposed legislation would create the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, which would shift oversight of the CTA, Metra and Pace from the Regional Transit Authority to a new 20-member board.

University of Northern Colorado golf coach Tina Barrett, who has primarily overseen the women’s team, has been named associate head coach of the Bears’ programs, head coach Clayton Sikorski announced ...

SPRINGFIELD — A bill that seeks to control the rising cost of prescription drugs while also offering financial help for many small, independent pharmacies in Illinois cleared the state Senate on ...

The newly renamed Northern Illinois Transit Authority would have sweeping authority to set policies for the Chicagoland transit agencies, which together serve about two-thirds of the state’s ...

When Billy Evans Jr., 24, decided to go to Northern Illinois University in the fall of 2018, he had big dreams. He wanted to open a building that has a barbershop in the front and a speakeasy in ...

with a new agency called the Northern Illinois Transit Authority. Under the House bill’s “one network, one timetable, one ticket model,” NITA would be tasked with creating a universal fare ...