In this episode of In Transit, we travel to Illinois, where a proposed bill seeks to address public transportation inefficiencies and funding problems by combining Chicago’s transit agencies into a single entity. With ridership numbers yet to recover from the pandemic and the looming threat of a $770 million budget shortfall, government and transit officials need a solution. Could consolidation be the answer? Or would it create more issues than it solves?

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