Chicago’s Union Station is one of the grand cathedrals of the Age of the Railroad. With its cavernous waiting room, towering Corinthian columns, statues of Greek goddesses and soaring vaulted skylight ...

The Amtrak board voted Friday to keep its Midwest phone reservations center with 388 employees in Chicago, laying to rest fears that the facility and the jobs would be moved to another state. Amtrak ...

A study released by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program Friday suggests that as the state considers the choice, it might want to adopt some surfer attitude: Go big or go home.

AMTRAK'S enemies have wanted to rip apart America's loss-making national railway company for years. Now may be the time to do so. A report recommending Amtrak's break-up will be before Congress in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Amtrak's Grand Rapids-to-Chicago route has seen massive ridership gains since 1997, far outpacing its cohort Michigan train routes, according to a new report from the Brookings ...

July 26, 1947: The date fell on a Saturday during a 12-year period (1940-52) when The Star didn’t publish on that day of the week. July 26, 1997, in The Star: Urgency is growing for Anniston to gain ...