Freight train traffic on a rail line that cuts through Chicago’s outlying suburbs for nearly 200 miles could more than triple because of a proposed acquisition by the Canadian National Railway ...

Leaders from some 20 communities are giving mixed reviews to a plan to convert the freight-only Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway across the far western suburbs into Metra’s newest commuter rail line.

Calvin Bell waits Monday for a bus near East 72nd Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, where RTD FasTracks plans to build a North Metro Rail Line Station.