It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois, and has easy access to downtown Chicago ( the Chicago Loop ) due to public transportation such as the Chicago ' L ' Blue and Green lines, CTA buses, and Metra commuter rail.

The CTA has plans to expand Red Line service to ten car trains from the current eight-car trains.

Jefferson Park has long been one of Chicago's transportation hubs, earning the neighborhood the nickname as " The Gateway to Chicago ". Jefferson Park ( CTA Blue Line ) | Jefferson Park Transit Center sign

The express service has often been targeted for elimination during service purges due to its " auxiliary " nature compared to other CTA rail lines, the rationalization being that there are readily available, albeit slower, alternatives along its entire route.

Nexter has a Joint Venture CTA International with BAE Systems to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapon systems and ammunition.

* Chicago, USA: The Chicago Transit Authority has a three-quarter union at Tower 18, located on the northwest corner of The Loop ( CTA ).

Chatham has a stop on Metra's Metra Electric commuter rail line, which provides daily service between downtown Chicago at Millennium Station and the southern destinations of University Park and Blue Island, as well as many CTA bus and train stops.

The CTA Red Line is located with a few stations just 3 miles west and the CTA Green Line has a couple stops just 5 miles north, but other than that, South Chicago is not currently connected to the Chicago ' L ' rapid transit system.

In recent years, and in spite its strength as the only labour representative in many forums, the CGT has faced growing opposition from other trade unions, such as the CTA, or the left-leaning grassroots organisations of unemployed people known as Piqueteros ( Picketing Men ), groups first in evidence during the Menem years which have since become tenuously allied with the Kirchner administrations.

For example, a Taoist scripture reading class held by the CTA in November 2010 required participants to ‘‘ fervently love the socialist motherland uphold the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party .’’ The central government of China has supported and encouraged the Association, along with other official religious groups, in promoting the " harmonious society " initiative of Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao.

* Constructive TA ( CTA ): This concept of TA, developed in the Netherlands, but also applied and discussed elsewhere attempts to broaden the design of new technology through feedback of TA activities into the actual construction of technology.

Pace Suburban Bus Service and the CTA have several bus routes that run through or near the Evanston campus.

CTA buses were known as the " green limousine " or the " big green " — buses were one or more shades of green from the CTA's establishment through the end of the 1980s.

A 2600 series ( Chicago ' L ') | 2600 series car brings up the rear of a Red Line train ( temporarily rerouted through the Chicago ' L ' | elevated tracks of the Chicago Loop ) at Randolph / Wabash ( CTA station ) | Randolph / Wabash.

Albany Park is accessible through the Kimball, Kedzie and Francisco stations of the Brown Line, the Montrose CTA Blue Line Station, as well as by the Edens expressway ( Interstate 94 ).

Services also include financial assistance which makes sure money is allocated and used properly in providing conservation for various natural resources, technical assistance which is given through the Conservation Technical Assistance program ( CTA ).

The CTA Blue Line runs through this neighborhood, with stops at Addison, Irving Park / Pulaski, and Montrose.

The 2011 agreement commits the two governments to continue their cooperation through the CTA, to align their lists of visa free countries, to develop " electronic border management system / s ", to engage in data sharing to combat the " abuse " of the Common Travel Area, and to work toward a " fully-common short stay visit visa.

A 2600 series ( Chicago ' L ') | 2600 series car brings up the rear of a Red Line ( Chicago Transit Authority ) | Red Line train ( temporarily rerouted through the Chicago ' L ' | elevated tracks of the The Loop ( CTA ) | Chicago Loop ) at Randolph / Wabash ( CTA ) | Randolph / Wabash.

The interurban continued to use the " L " tracks through the years of Chicago Rapid Transit Company ( CRT ) ownership and into the Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA ) era.

However, competition with Cellophane was an obstacle to its sales, and in 1935 it founded British Cellophane in conjunction with the Cellophane Company and its French parent company CTA.

While working at the CTA Focke also developed the BF-1 Beija-Flor ( hummingbird ) two-seater light helicopter from 1954, which made its first flight at Sao Jose dos Campos on 22 January 1959.

Chicago Transit Authority, also known as CTA or Transit Chicago, is the operator of mass transit within the City of Chicago, Illinois and some of its surrounding suburbs.

The CTA sells transit cards online, at its headquarters, and at all rail stations.

The Red Line was created in 1993 when the CTA adopted color-coded nomenclature for all of its ' L ' routes.

In 1979, the City began the Southwest Transit Project, which proposed extending the CTA ' L ' system to the Southwest Side of Chicago over existing railroad rights-of-way and newer elevated connections along the very busy Archer-49th-Cicero Corridor from the Loop to its originally planned terminus at Ford City Shopping Center.

The service cuts were scheduled to be implemented on September 16, 2007, but the CTA received a last-minute $ 24 million advance on its 2008 operating subsidy, postponing the changes until November 4, 2007.

However, this is merely a study and the final form of the Circle Line and its effects on current CTA rail service, if the project begins at all, remain to be seen.

Also, until its destruction in 2006, the gothic architecture Hayes-Healy Athletic Center adjacent to the CTA Fullerton ' L ' Station ( similar in design to the still-present Cortelyou Commons next to Wish Field at Cacciatore Stadium ) was also part of the Seminary campus.

The CTA postponed its decision for six months in what many community groups in the city heralded as a victory.

However the Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA ), with 483 LFS units in its active bus fleet, remains one of the larger Nova Bus operators.

The Belmont CTA Station on its northeastern edge next to the Kennedy Expressway at the intersection of Kimball Avenue and Belmont, less than three blocks away from St. Hyacinth's former mission of Our Lady of Lourdes, while the Addison CTA Station is located in the median of the same expressway adjacent to the neighboring Villa District.

The CTA 2600 series cars were finished in 1987, and were the last railcars to be built by Budd before its railcar business was shut down altogether that year.

Despite its popular support, officials from CTA and Metra have largely dismissed the plan, focussing on other expansion projects.

As a compromise, the railroad gained approval to cut back its service to the Desplaines Avenue station in Forest Park — the westernmost terminus of CTA Garfield Park service, after the CTA ended its unprofitable elevated train service on the CA & E's Westchester line in 1951.

In 1952, Focke and other members of his former design team were employed by Brazil's Centro Técnico Aeroespacial ( CTA ), at the time the air force's technical center, to develop a Convertiplane, the " Convertiplano ", which drew heavily on Focke's wartime work on the Fa 269.

Founded by the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration ( CTA ), the institute contains the Centre for Arts, the Academy of Tibetan Culture, the Literary and Cultural Research Centre and the library and publications department.

The contract was eventually awarded to Computer Technology Associates ( CTA ), a California-based firm, owned by John Torquato, Jr, a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

* 1953: Foundation of the Brazilian General Command for Aerospace Technology ( CTA ).

* Brazilian General Command for Aerospace Technology ( CTA )-São José dos Campos

Members may use the letters CTA ( Chartered Tax Adviser ), formerly ATII ( Associate of the Taxation Institute Incorporated ).