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Metra offering free rides during its 40th birthday June 8 and June 9

Metra’s celebration of its 40th anniversary will feature free rides Saturday and Sunday. Metra marks its birthday on June 8, 1984, the railway announced on their website. Activities in celebration of that 40th birthday include: Tuesday, June 4: Customer Appreciation Day – Metra will hand out a gift to riders at downtown stations while supplies […]

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Village requests pedestrian gates from state, underpass also to be built after teenager fatally struck by train in Barrington

The Village of Barrington has asked the state for pedestrian gates to be set up at two rail crossings downtown and a pedestrian underpass will also be built at another crossing following the fatal accident of a 17-year-old Barrington High School student. Marin Lacson, a 17-year-old junior at Barrington High School, was struck and killed […]

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Man flown to hospital with serious injuries after Metra train hits car near Woodstock

A man was flown to the hospital with serious injuries after his car was hit by a Metra train near Woodstock early Saturday morning, fire officials said. The Woodstock Fire/Rescue District and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded at 2:05 a.m. Saturday to the railroad crossing on Lily Pond Road in unincorporated Woodstock for a report […]