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 ...

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

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

The economy of the Mankato area relies heavily on freight trains to ship its products to market, and the city should be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

A Dubuque group wants passenger rail service to Chicago, hoping to transform the hours-long drive into a train ride.

The Midwest Connect passenger rail line would cut through central Ohio, providing Columbus and many other cities with their ...