A crumbling rail overpass in Back of the Yards was the site of a violent riot that erupted during the Pullman strike of 1894, ...

A pickup truck and a freight train crashed in suburban Elgin, Illinois, on Thursday morning. Video from the scene shows ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- A crash between a train and a truck shut down west suburban roads on Thursday morning, Elgin police said. Police issued an advisory on the road closures at about 7 a.m. due to a ...

One person was killed Thursday after a landscape vehicle collides with a freight train on State Street in Elgin, officials say.

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

One of the major pieces of Chicago’s CREATE program marked a milestone on Wednesday, Oct. 15, as the first CSX Transportation ...

PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Emergency crews are on the scene of a freight train derailment in far southwest suburban Plainfield Friday evening. The derailment happened around 7:30 p.m. near Rte. 59 and ...

A freight train derailment early Friday blocked all tracks on the Metra BNSF line between Aurora and Route 59, halting service for several hours. Service resumed around 8 a.m., but riders were warned ...

Rail equipment lessor GATX Corp. on Tuesday reported lower North American profits as expenses grew faster than revenue during the third quarter. The North American rail segment profit declined 31%, to ...