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

Volunteer Millers of de Immigrant Windmill will be hosting a program about the influence of railways on American history.

To address this, Metra is seeking rider input on two proposed naming systems through a public survey. This move is both ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

A family friend is now in care of the children. Officials said the mother was in Illinois during that week, but has since returned to Wisconsin and is in contact with police. A neighbor had been ...

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 ...

In a statement, Illinois apologized to Purdue and said it was looking into the incident. Trey Kaufmann-Renn: 'I told (my brother) afterward, that's something I would fight over." (This story was ...

The feat, now listed in the Malaysia Book of Records as the “First Locally Manufactured Locomotive for Export”, means Malaysia is now on the global rail map with its ability to export diesel ...

Carrigan in a statement, "Warning signals, roadway approaches, and other improvements to Illinois' existing railroad infrastructure is an important measure for preventing train collisions ...

The Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSPR) connects major cities in western Taiwan between Taipei and Kaohsiung. Opened on January 5, 2007, the rail system has become an important part of Taiwan's ...