1993: A Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad commuter train raced by a red signal and crashed head-on into another ...

The Midwest Underground Railroad Network is interested in the Van Oostenbrugge Homestead in South Holland, slated for ...

For people moving to Illinois, getting familiar with Chicago’s expressways — which are referred to by name instead of number ...

Railroads proposing mergers inevitably make ambitious promises and projections, particularly about faster service and more ...

POTUS 47 appoints a second Presidential Advisory Board (PEB) to help settle an ongoing contract dispute at MTA Long Island ...

One of Wyoming’s deadliest train wrecks killed 10 men and hurt 15 others, but has been nearly forgotten to history. One ...

Big Boy No. 4014, described as “the Elvis Presley of locomotives,” could begin its first ever coast-to-coast tour in just a ...

Despite a snow squall that snarled traffic and shut down Chicago’s airports for a couple of hours, the Midwest Association of ...

The analysis revealed a recurring cycle of industry opposition, FRA inaction, congressional capitulation and tragedy.

These abandoned and nearly-abandoned ghost towns along Route 66 connect the dots between Illinois and California, and each ...

More than 3,000 rail accidents, causing 23 deaths and nearly 1,200 injuries over the past decade, have been attributed to ...

Union Pacific's chief executive fired back at rivals who oppose the merger to create the first transcontinental railroad.