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The Chicago Community Trust and Civic Federation Host Transit Governance Panel

The Chicago Community Trust and the Civic Federation in partnership welcomed a dynamic moderated panel of regional transit experts at the Federation’s…

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Civic Federation Urges Linking Transit Governance Reform With Funding, Calls for Consolidation of Transit Services in Northeastern Illinois

The Civic Federation today released a position paper calling on the Illinois General Assembly to pursue foundational structural reform of Northeastern Illinois’ mass transit systems—…

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Civic Federation Urges Linking Transit Governance Reform With Funding, Calls for Consolidation of Transit Services in Northeastern Illinois

With Northeastern Illinois’ transit agencies facing an estimated $730 million fiscal cliff in FY2026, the Civic Federation calls on the Illinois General Assembly to consolidate the Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago Transit…

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Reforming Mass Transit Governance in the Chicago Region

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Chicago Transit Authority Approves $2.0 Billion Budget, Faces 2026 Fiscal Cliff

This blog post presents an overview of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) FY2024 operating budget. The CTA’s fiscal year is January 1…

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Public Transit in a Post-COVID World

How should Illinois pay for public transit? This was one of the key questions posed at a recent policy forum on the topic of public transportation in the…

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Thank You, Transit Policy Forum Attendees!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Thursday, April 13, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for our half-day policy forum, “Public Transit in a Post-COVID World: Building a Financially Stable, Equitable and Accessible Mass Transit…

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CTA’s FY2023 $1.8 Billion Operating Budget Approved

The CTA’s FY2023 budget of $1.8 billion was approved by the Regional Transit Authority Board of Directors on December 15, 2022. This blog presents an overview of that budget as well as data for CTA fiscal plans from FY2019 through 2025.…

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Chicago Transit Authority Approves $1.7 Billion Budget, Faces Uncertain Fiscal Future

This blog post presents an overview of the Chicago Transit Authority’s FY2022 operating budget, including a summary of how federal stimulus funds were used to balance the budget, and an update on its recent $350 million debt issuance.The…

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CTA Releases $3.5 Billion 5-Year Capital Plan

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) released a $3.5 billion, five year FY2022-FY2026 capital plan in October 2021. The CTA…