Illinois College will host a 2026 conference honoring freedom seekers and Underground Railroad sites across the state.

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 ...

He has filed a lawsuit against Illinois Central Railroad. Solomon Perry worked at Illinois Central's Markham Railway, where he says racial epithets were scrawled onto bathroom walls and casually ...

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 ...

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I grew up in East St. Louis in the 1940s and 1950s. The city was the second-largest rail center in the world with 27 railroad lines converging on it. This was surpassed only by Chicago, which had 33.