Gia Biagi, the state's new acting transportation secretary, quit as commissioner of Chicago's Transportation Department shortly after Mayor Brandon Johnson took office.

The Midwestern city had over 11 million shared bike and e-scooter trips last year, according to a Jan. 8 news release.

Eager to finish tuning up bikes that they’d been learning how to fix since fall, the high school students in West Town Bike’s after-school program fell quiet when their instructor asked for a show of hands.

A new report from the city's planning and transportation departments proposes creating "character zones" along the corridor filled with cafes, greenery, retail, plazas and other amenities.

Gia Biagi, Illinois' acting transportation secretary, focuses on accelerating the Kennedy Expressway project and related IDOT construction efforts.

The program allows the city to use cameras to mail tickets to registered vehicle owners for violations in an area that covers much of downtown.

The agency said the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and Pace suburban buses will face a $770 million budget deficit and potentially drastic service cuts next year.

The Chicago Transit Authority says the $1.9 billion in federal funding it’s been promised for the Red Line Extension should be secure, despite the Trump administration’s sweeping freeze of grant money Tuesday.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 23, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Servic) High temperature: 65 degrees (1909) Low temperature: Minus 18 degrees (1963) Precipitation: 0.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

A crackdown was supposed to start this year, fining drivers who park on the shoulder to wait before pickups at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Cameras were supposed to be installed under a new Illinois state law that just went into effect.

The Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze spurred discord and pushback in Illinois even as a judge temporarily blocked the effort.