A new exhibit at the Marshall Public Library highlights the courageous stories of freedom seekers and multi-racial conductors ...

Some CTA trains were stopped for over an hour during the morning rush hour Monday, as emergency officials negotiated with a man on the tracks downtown.

As President Donald Trump floats grand ideas like reacquiring the Panama Canal and taking over Greenland, some rural residents of Illinois and ... of the Leventhal Map & Education Center at ...

In 1913, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in Auburn, New York. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to assassinating ...

To learn more about IBTR, go to https://extension.illinois.edu/forestry, especially check out the interactive map of IBTR champions. The sheer size of the eastern cottonwood, the biggest tree in ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill (WREX) – The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) approved public safety upgrades at the Five Corners Road and Crossroads Road highway-rail grade crossing of Chicago, Central and ...

What was need was a temporary bridge of substance that would allow a regular flow of traffic, including interurban rail cars, private cars, trucks and pedestrians as well as the installation of ...

Byway Maps is designed to take the guesswork out of planning a rail journey. Users input their starting location and timeframe, and the tool generates suggested routes that incorporate train ...

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The joint statement between LSPH and Getlink comes during a period of speculation that new operators could soon compete in the Channel Tunnel, ending Eurostar’s monopoly on passenger rail services.

While some of those hopes did come true, dreams of an expansive rail map connecting British cities with the Continent never came to fruition. In fact, the current list of cities (Paris ...