It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Following a standard review for university administrators, Ed Balleisen has been reappointed for a two-year term and elevated ...

A fiscal cliff and potential transit service reductions loom for Chicago and the suburbs as Illinois lawmakers determine what ...

Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year’s budget, ...