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 ...

A man was who struck and killed by a Metra train in the west suburbs has been identified. His death was ruled an accident, officials said. The video in the player above is from a previous report. ABC7 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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… ...

Metra service was halted Monday morning on the Milwaukee District North line after a pedestrian was struck by a train, according to the Metra website. Inbound trains were being halted near Grayslak… ...

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 ...