Metra (officially the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation) is a suburban rail system that serves the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States and surrounding suburbs. Its railroad serves 239 stations on 11 different rail lines across the Regional Transportation Authority (Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois))s six-county service area (Cook (Cook County, Illinois), DuPage (DuPage County, Illinois), Kane (Kane County, Illinois), Lake (Lake County, Illinois), McHenry (McHenry County, Illinois) and Will (Will County, Illinois) Counties) providing over 80 million rides annually. Metra has been honored with several E. H. Harriman Awards for employee safety, most recently with a Bronze award in class B (line-haul railroads with between 4 and 15 million employee hours per year) for 2005. Previous Harriman Awards conferred to Metra include Gold awards for 2003 and 2004 and a Silver award for 2002.