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Chicagoland Rail

Manage your routes, alerts, and preferences.

Your routes

Language

Train times, alerts, and every label switch to the language you pick.

Notifications

Choose your days, then what you want on them.

Add a route above to set these up.

Send on

A cancellation of your own train always comes through.

Hold notifications overnight. A train leaving soon still comes through.

A daily summary of your next train and any alerts.

Direction windows Preference

When each direction is shown by default. Mornings show Home → Work, evenings Work → Home; outside these windows, and on weekends and holidays, both directions appear.

Times saved

One-off trip Utility

Check trains between any two stations, no saved route needed.

Notification, reminder, and briefing changes save automatically.

Start over

Removes every route, reminder, and preference saved on this device and returns to setup.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Metra. Schedule and service data provided by Metra. © 2026 Chicagoland Rail.

Chicagoland Rail

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Metra. Schedule and service data provided by Metra. © 2026 Chicagoland Rail.

Dashboard

One-off trip

Check trains between any two stations, no saved route needed.

Fares & passes

Chicagoland Rail

A free, independent companion for Chicagoland Metra riders.

Riders aboard today

Riders aboard today: people who've opened the app today.

Visits: total times the app's been opened, all-time.

Unique riders: how many different people, ever.

Questions or ideas? resolute.acc@gmail.com

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Chicagoland Rail is proprietary software. Copying, modifying, or redeploying the app or its code — in whole or in part — is not permitted.

Anonymous, aggregate stats only (popular routes and busy times). No names, devices, or personal data.

Install the app

Add Chicagoland Rail to your home screen for a full-screen app — and, on iPhone, to receive delay alerts and your morning briefing. iOS only allows notifications for the installed app.

📲 Install this app for delay alerts & your morning briefing.

Chicagoland Rail — live Metra train times, delays and alerts

A free tracker for Chicago's Metra commuter rail. Pick your line and two stations to see your next trains, with live delays, cancellations, and service alerts for that line. It runs in any browser, installs as an app on your phone, and keeps working offline with the last schedule it loaded.

What it shows

  • Your next trains between any two Metra stations, with a live countdown to departure
  • Delays and cancellations as they happen, straight from Metra's realtime feed
  • Service alerts for your line, in your language
  • Full timetables for today and tomorrow, including weekends and holidays
  • Fares, zones, and an interactive Chicagoland system map
  • Optional weekday delay alerts and a morning briefing, even when the app is closed

All 11 Metra lines

Every Metra commuter-rail line is covered end to end — from the downtown Chicago terminal out to the last suburban stop.

  • BNSF Railway Chicago Union Station ↔ Aurora
  • Milwaukee District North Chicago Union Station ↔ Fox Lake
  • Milwaukee District West Chicago Union Station ↔ Elgin (Big Timber Road)
  • North Central Service Chicago Union Station ↔ Antioch
  • Heritage Corridor Chicago Union Station ↔ Joliet
  • SouthWest Service Chicago Union Station ↔ Manhattan
  • Union Pacific North Ogilvie Transportation Center ↔ Kenosha
  • Union Pacific Northwest Ogilvie Transportation Center ↔ Harvard
  • Union Pacific West Ogilvie Transportation Center ↔ Elburn
  • Metra Electric Millennium Station ↔ University Park
  • Rock Island LaSalle Street Station ↔ Joliet
About How it works The 11 Metra lines FAQ

Chicagoland Rail is an independent, free tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Metra. Schedule and service data come from Metra's public GTFS and GTFS-realtime feeds. Line names are used descriptively to identify the services shown.