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Regional Transportation Authority

transit operator and planner in Northeastern Illinois
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Regional Transportation Authority

Summary

Regional Transportation Authority is a government agency[1]. It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Regional Transportation Authority is located in Chicago metropolitan area[3].
  • Regional Transportation Authority is in the country of United States[4].
  • Regional Transportation Authority is in the country of US[5].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's instance of is recorded as government agency[6].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's instance of is recorded as organization[7].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's child organization or unit is recorded as Metra[8].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's child organization or unit is recorded as Pace[9].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's child organization or unit is recorded as Chicago Transit Authority[10].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's Commons category is recorded as Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois)[11].
  • 1974 marks the founding of Regional Transportation Authority[12].
  • 1974-03-19 marks the founding of Regional Transportation Authority[13].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's official website is recorded as http://www.rtachicago.org/[14].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois)[15].
  • Regional Transportation Authority's legal form is recorded as 8888[16].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300FOIPI62F5YFO59[17]

  • Registered legal name: Regional Transportation Authority, Cook, Dupage, Kane, Lake, McHenry And Will Counties, Illinois[18]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-IL[19]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[20]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 8888[21]

  • Other legal form: MUNICIPAL[22]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[23]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[24]

  • Entity created: 1974-03-19[25]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-04-09[26]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-10-21[27]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-10-22[28]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[29]

  • Registration authority: RA999999[30]

  • Other names: it, it, Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties, Illinois[31]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[32]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1974[12] and 1974-03-19[13].

Operations

Subsidiaries include Metra[8], a transport company[33], in United States[34], founded in 1984[35], headquartered in Illinois[36]; Pace[9], a bus-based transport system[37], founded in 1983[38], headquartered in Arlington Heights[39]; and Chicago Transit Authority[10], a transit district[40], in United States[41], founded in 1947[42], headquartered in Chicago[43].

Why It Matters

Regional Transportation Authority is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Related Entities

organization United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . rtachicago.org. rtachicago.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . rtachicago.org. rtachicago.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . rtachicago.org. rtachicago.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . rtachicago.org. rtachicago.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Logo image → RTA horz blue.png
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