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.

The $1.5 billion funding package also creates a new regional governing body for the system: the Northern Illinois Transit Authority.

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,

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.

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

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.

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.