CHICAGO (WLS) -- The 27th Street station is rarely used these days and the Illinois Central Railroad is no longer in operation. But, it was along these same tracks still used by the Metra Electric ...

Canadian National has asked federal regulators to confirm that the railroad has operating authority on trackage in ...

DECATUR - After what has for some seemed an eternity, settlement checks from the class-action lawsuit against Illinois Central Railroad finally are making it to their destinations.

DECATUR — After what has for some seemed an eternity, settlement checks from the class action lawsuit against Illinois Central Railroad are finally making it to their destinations.

An 1869 view of downtown Champaign shows angular ‘north-south’ streets between present-day Washington Street and Springfield Avenue running parallel to the Illinois Central Railroad tracks that run at ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Illinois 13 (E. Main Street) near US-51 (N. Illinois Ave.) will be closed for several days in June while crews perform repairs on the railroad crossing. Illinois Department of ...

The old downtown area of Monee is only a few blocks wide, but you can’t see from one end to the other, thanks to “The Cut.” The Cut, a man-made ravine 25-feet deep and 83-feet wide at the bottom that ...

How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.

There is a beautiful duality to the first Chicago site recognized as part of the Underground Railroad. In front, a historical plaque unveiled in 2019 solemnly marks the former Jan and Aagje Ton Farm, ...