The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, ...

The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of Central Oklahoma wins a USDOT grant to evaluate at-grade crossings along a ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Snow totals have trended down since yesterday, with the vast majority of Central Illinois expected to get 2 to 4 inches of ...

While a storm system moving through the area this weekend will bring some freezing drizzle to the area on Saturday, the systems that follow will stand a better chance of bringing accumulating snow to ...

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To commemorate this monumental milestone, Central Railway is set ... known as EMU -Electric Multiple Unit- in railway lingo), operating on a 1500V DC system marked the beginning of a significant ...

CARMI, Il. (WEVV) — Multiple streets are closed in Carmi, Illinois following a fatal train versus pedestrian accident Monday morning. Carmi Police Department reports that the railroad crossing at ...

(WAND) - Conditions will turn icy across Central Illinois today. Light freezing drizzle will develop this morning across our southern hometowns. It'll build into freezing rain as it moves ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...