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Metra trains on the Union Pacific North line were halted Thursday afternoon after a train struck a flatbed trailer carrying a cold milling machine. Around 2:46 p.m., UP-N train #337, scheduled to ...

A Metra hit a semi-truck Thursday afternoon in the north suburbs. The crash caused extensive delays on the Union Pacific ...

Spokesperson Martha Hill tells Evanston Now that the driver, identified as Hugo Alvarado, of Zion, Illinois, received two ...

A northbound Metra train collided with a semi truck in Wilmette on Thursday afternoon, halting train traffic in both directions on the Union Pacific North Line. The line goes through the Evanston Main ...

Two Metra passengers were injured when a Union Pacific-North line train hit a semi-trailer truck on Thursday afternoon in ...

A person was killed when a Metra train struck a vehicle near Grayslake, Illinois, north of Chicago on Thursday afternoon. Metra Milwaukee District North train No. 2113 struck a vehicle near Grayslake ...

A Rock Island line Metra train struck a vehicle in Morgan Park on Friday while heading into the city, officials said. Around ...

Howeverm The Record North Shore quoted village officials as saying the truck was ‘low slung’ and got stuck on the tracks.” Going eastbound, Linden Avenue crosses the tracks after cresting an upgrade, ...