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Ridership of Amtrak's Borealis line with service from Milwaukee to the Twin Cities and Chicago climbed to more than 200,000 passengers in its first year of operation, the agency reported May 21.

Fans looking to get an early start to the third game of the Brewers v. Cubs National League Division Series headed off to the Windy City in style. The Brewers Express — an Amtrak Hiawatha train decked ...

An Amtrak train headed from Milwaukee to Chicago crashed into a construction vehicle Sept. 21 in Lake Forest, Illinois, authorities say. The person operating the construction vehicle, a front-end ...

An Amtrak train struck construction equipment on the tracks in Lake Forest Sunday afternoon, injuring a Metra employee, ...