Transit agencies in IL — RouteRider Guide
This state's agencies, as the BTS National Transit Map download of 2026-11-08 carries them: one record each, printed in the table below.
Agencies
The licence tag each record carries is printed in the last-visible column, and each agency page names it in full.
| Agency name | Common name | City | Licence tag | NTD ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Macomb | McDonough County Public Transportation (MCPT) | Macomb | Public Domain | 50232 |
| Champaign County | Champaign-County Area Rural Transit System (C-CARTS) | Urbana | Public Domain | 50269 |
| Coles County | Coles County Public Transportation | Charleston | Public Domain | 50447 |
| City of DeKalb | DeKalb Public Transit | Dekalb | Public Domain | 50176 |
| City of Galesburg | Galesburg Public Transportation | Galesburg | Public Domain | 50502 |
| Springfield Mass Transit District | Springfield Mass Transit District (SMTD) | Springfield | Public Domain | 50059 |
| City of Decatur, Il | Decatur Public Transit System (DPTS) | Decatur | Public Domain | 50061 |
| South Central Illinois Mass Transit District | South Central Transit (SCT) | Centralia | Public Domain | 50327 |
| City of Danville | Danville Mass Transit (DMT) | Danville | Public Domain | 50174 |
| Greater Peoria Mass Transit District | CityLink | Peoria | Public Domain | 50056 |
| Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System | Connect Transit | Normal | Public Domain | 50047 |
| Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation | Metra | Chicago | Public Domain | 50118 |
| Village of Norridge | Norridge Bus Service | Norridge | Public Domain | 50560 |
| Pace, the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority | Pace Suburban Bus | Arlington Heights | Public Domain | 50113 |
| Shawnee Mass Transit District | Shawnee Mass Transit | Vienna | Public Domain | 50315 |
| Triton College | Success Express | River Grove | Public Domain | 50561 |
| Chicago Water Taxi (Wendella) | Chicago Water Taxi (CWT) | Chicago | Public Domain | 50521 |
| Rockford Mass Transit District | Rockford Mass Transit District (RMTD) | Rockford | Public Domain | 50058 |
| City of Quincy | Quincy Transit (QT) | Quincy | Public Domain | 50258 |
| Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District | MetroLink | Moline | Public Domain | 50057 |
| Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District | Champaign Urbana Mass Transit District (C-U MTD) | Urbana | Public Domain | 50060 |
| Chicago Transit Authority | Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) | Chicago | Public Domain | 50066 |
| Madison County Transit District | Madison County Transit (MCT) | Pontoon Beach | Public Domain | 50146 |
| River Valley Metro Mass Transit District | River Valley Metro Mass Transit District (RVMMTD) | Bourbonnais | Public Domain | 50159 |
| Jackson County Mass Transit District | JAX Mass Transit | Carbondale | Public Domain | 50204 |
| Rides Mass Transit District | Rides Mass Transit District (RMTD) | Harrisburg | Public Domain | 50211 |
| Chicago State University | CSU Shuttle | Chicago | Public Domain | 50569 |
Cities these records name
23 cities appear in the City field of the 27 records for IL. The table gives each city's record count and share of the state's records; the cities page for IL lists them with their licence tags and NTD IDs.
| City | Agency records | Share of IL records |
|---|---|---|
| Arlington Heights | 1 | 3.7% |
| Bourbonnais | 1 | 3.7% |
| Carbondale | 1 | 3.7% |
| Centralia | 1 | 3.7% |
| Charleston | 1 | 3.7% |
| Chicago | 4 | 14.8% |
| Danville | 1 | 3.7% |
| Decatur | 1 | 3.7% |
| Dekalb | 1 | 3.7% |
| Galesburg | 1 | 3.7% |
| Harrisburg | 1 | 3.7% |
| Macomb | 1 | 3.7% |
| Moline | 1 | 3.7% |
| Normal | 1 | 3.7% |
| Norridge | 1 | 3.7% |
| Peoria | 1 | 3.7% |
| Pontoon Beach | 1 | 3.7% |
| Quincy | 1 | 3.7% |
| River Grove | 1 | 3.7% |
| Rockford | 1 | 3.7% |
| Springfield | 1 | 3.7% |
| Urbana | 2 | 7.4% |
| Vienna | 1 | 3.7% |
| All 23 cities in IL | 27 | 100.0% |
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) - National Transit Map (NTM) Agencies, National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). Downloaded 2026-11-08. Agency names, common names, cities and licence tags are the values in the records themselves, printed as stored; a blank value is shown as “not available”.