Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, June 4
• Cue the song "Eye of the Tiger." Here's a pep talk from Active Trans: "The push for transit funding and reform in Illinois continues"
June 4, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, June 3
• Tribune Editorial Board 4/27: Transit agencies are "frantically," "panic stoking," and "begging legislators for money" to address the "so-called fiscal cliff."
June 3, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Monday, June 2
• More coverage of "The Night the Transit Funding Bill Didn't Go Down in Springfield": (CapitolFax, Sun-Times, Block Club, Crain's, Trains, Herald, Axios)
June 2, 2025
About last night: Chicagoland transit funding hits roadblock after House non-vote. RTA says 2026 budgets must reflect $771M deficit.
Good morning Streetsblog Chicago readers. I hope that as you read this, you've got a cup of strong coffee, or whatever your favorite morning beverage is, while we face the sobering outcome of Saturday's late-night Illinois General Assembly session.
June 1, 2025
Nik Hunder, whose research on the $5.7B cost inspired recent Red Line Extension-critical commentary, says we shouldn’t, can’t nix the project
This has been a hectic week for Illinois lawmakers and Chicagoland transit professionals and advocates as we try to avert the prophesied $771 budget cliff. As I type this, we're only about 33 hours away from the end of the spring legislative session, Saturday at midnight. If bills aren't passed to fund and/or reform public transportation in our region, the result will be apocalyptic service cuts and layoffs next year. Therefore, Springfield had better step up soon or, as last week's Soldier Field performers AC/DC would say, we're on the "Highway to Hell"
May 30, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Friday, May 30
• Highway to the danger zone: "Cuts To CTA Could Begin Soon If State Doesn’t Fill $770 Million Budget Gap" (Block Club)
May 30, 2025
Cycling from Chinatown to Uptown’s Asia on Argyle district on the 3rd annual Ride for Solidarity, in honor of AANHPI Heritage Month
Photos by John Greenfield.
May 29, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 29
• More coverage of new state bill to replace RTA, reduce Chicago mayor's control of CTA, w/o funding solution (WTTW, Crain's, NBC)
May 29, 2025
CPD: Driver distraction, speed played a role in death of Divvy rider Yader Castaneda, 18. Deadly vehicle design may have also been a factor.
Sadly, Chicago saw its first bike fatality of 2025 on Memorial Day, when a Hummer driver fatally struck Yader Castaneda, 18, while he was riding an electric Divvy bike-share cycle in the Loop.
May 28, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 28
• Johnson urges "expediency" in addressing CTA fiscal cliff, wants funding increase and governance reform: "My position is we have to do both." (Tribune)
May 28, 2025