Metra is testing out new ticket checks at five downtown Chicago stations. Riders will need to have their Ventra or paper ticket scanned before boarding trains.
CTA, Metra and Pace officials introduced the Ventra app Friday. It will allow riders to buy and use tickets for all three transit agencies on their phones.
CTA, Metra and Pace are planning a joint news conference Friday morning to announce the new Ventra app.
Sometime this fall, the new Ventra app will be available to Metra, Pace and CTA riders.
Police raided the El Cerrito home of Vincent Gammill, a man who claimed to be a doctor with a cure for terminally ill patients.
The CTA and the company that rolled out the Ventra system are headed to court.