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 ...

MATTOON, Ill. (WAND) – In the early days of the 20th century, railroads, like the Big Four and the Illinois Central Railroad, drove the Illinois economy, especially in towns like Mattoon. Those ...

In the mid-1930s, a dangerous Illinois Central railroad crossing in Grenada, Mississippi, had claimed too many lives. Local ...

A black-and-white photograph showing the new Illinois Central Railroad depot from the south looking north. The new elevated tracks are visible to the right of the station. Photograph #14, Illinois ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Rocky Fork New Bethel AME Church in Godfrey, Illinois, photographed on June 22, 2023, is only a few miles from the Mississippi River and served as an early stop for freedom seekers traveling on the ...