The Bus Priority Corridor Study will explore ways to make bus travel faster, more convenient, and more comfortable on five specific routes, the CTA said.

Illinois lawmakers approved a $1.5 billion public transit funding package early Friday, averting a looming "fiscal cliff" that threatened service for CTA, Metra and Pace riders.

The 26-year-old man was found unresponsive Monday on the street in the 3400 block of North Ashland Avenue, Chicago police said.

Chicago police are looking for a group of seven women and one man who beat and robbed people on a CTA Blue Line platform in the Loop.

Six buses will be outfitted with the ABLE system that checks for parking and standing violations in bus and bike lanes.

With the clock ticking down to avert an impending public transit fiscal cliff, Illinois Democrats in the pre-dawn hours Friday muscled through a $1.5 billion plan that diverts state gas tax and road fund revenue for mass transit,

A 21-year-old man has been charged with robbing a woman at gunpoint on a CTA Green Line train in May. Police said Labrun Bob stole the victim’s belongings while armed near the Conservatory-Central Park Drive station. He was arrested Tuesday in the Austin neighborhood and is due in court for a detention hearing Wednesday.

A man was beaten by a group on a Chicago CTA Red Line train; police are investigating, and no suspects have been arrested.

CHICAGO ( WGN) — A woman died Sunday afternoon after falling onto the train tracks on Chicago’s Near North Side, police said. According to police, the incident occurred just before 4:30 in the 1500 block of South Sedgwick Street.

Riders may need to find an alternative route around downtown on Saturday, as service along CTA elevated rail lines through the Loop will be halted for the weekend while crews conduct track repairs.