That station would provide airport access for the new proposed MARK Rail line that also includes Milwaukee, Racine and ...

There's a possible game changer in the works for the area with the addition of rail travel possibly coming to Steubenville to ...

The first major railroad merger in more than two decades is expected to move forward after federal regulators approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, but some in ...

The new multi-modal Blue Island logistics hub offers access to all Class I railroads through OmniTRAX's Chicago Rail Link. In addition to exceptional connectivity, the new site features bulk commodity ...

A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes overlaid with a drawing of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (left) and the Thomas Hoyne residence (right). A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes ...

Construction on a new rail system connecting Rockford and Chicago is scheduled to ...

A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...

Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

ROCKFORD (WREX) -- After years of promises, a new rail line from Rockford to Chicago could be one step closer to reality, if the infrastructure plan proposed by President Joe Biden passes. In the ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) — An important Juneteenth history lesson took place in the Chicago Loop, a key role in freeing slaves, and hundreds walk past the Monadnock building in the Loop every day, not realizing ...

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