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On a Wednesday morning in May, Metra staff and board members gathered at the LaSalle Street Station outside the Chicago Stock Exchange building. Ordinarily, they would have met at the commuter rail ...

Metra will celebrate its 40 th birthday this week with a variety of activities and programs, culminating with offering free rides on all of its train lines in coming days. Metra, which was founded in ...

Metra will offer free trips on all trains arriving at downtown stations on the evening of New Year's Eve, the agency announced Friday. Any passengers arriving at Chicago's Ogilvie or Union Station ...