CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force on Tuesday presented its ongoing findings on the important role Illinois played in the history of helping slaves reach freedom. The ...

Train enthusiasts from across Central Illinois rode into East Peoria on Sunday for the annual Peoria Train Fair.

ILLINOIS (KWQC) - Two Illinois U.S. Senators and an Illinois Representative are asking for an extension of federal funding for the Chicago-Quad Cities passenger rail project. U.S. Senate Majority Whip ...

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two decades ...

Reprint of the 1934 ed., with a new introd. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!308698~!0#focus ...

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.

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 ...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2025. There are 354 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt ...

BLOOMINGTON - A good case could be made for dividing the history of Bloomington into two distinct eras: "Before Railroads," or B.R., and "After Railroads," or A.R. | From Our Past page Railroads first ...