This is a case where public agencies and even their harshest critics should bury the hatchet and work together to try to snag dollars for good projects. Collaboration across jurisdictional boundaries by both public agencies and advocates on projects can help too.

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Authorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, D.C. Traveling 75 MPH

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New illustrated edition of Upton Sinclair’s Chicago classic The Jungle release party! Not the kind of release these livestock would deserve. Be there! Saturday November 21, 7pm at Tangible Books in Bridgeport, a bare ruin’d choir where once the sweet swine squeal’d. @robertloerzel.bsky.social

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Chicago’s 1st battery-powered commuter train is coming to Metra’s Rock Island Beverly line. buff.ly/qB1SRv0

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Highlights @chi.streetsblog.org from recent American Public Transportation Association #APTA meeting in Chicago. Metra is FLIRTing with battery-electric transets. Transit agency leaders point to immediate benefits from NITA Act governance and funding reforms. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/10/10/a...

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