Maury Thompson shares news from 1895 about a new railroad depot and other rail improvement projects in the region.

— Pritzker pushes back at State Farm in fight for tighter insurance regulations: “The giant insurer hit homeowners with premium increases last summer averaging 27 percent, and, unlike some states, ...

Discover wildly unique Illinois restaurants: sassy servers, hot-dog icons, drag dining, train cars, and BBQ legends worth the ...

“Look for a building with the color of a weather-beaten boxcar and you have the first passenger station of the Milwaukee in ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX: CP) (NYSE: CP) (CPKC) announced today that, as part of its ongoing board succession planning, Gordon Trafton, a current member of the CPKC board, has been appointed ...

Norfolk Southern’s quarterly profit slipped 12% amid the uncertain economy as well as unusual costs related to its efforts to ...

Hop aboard the Lincoln Service line for a nostalgic ride through Illinois, where historic Route 66 towns and charming ...

At least 22 deaths were attributed to the weekend’s snowstorm. More than 700,000 homes and businesses, particularly in the South, remained without power on Monday, and officials said it could take ...

The winter storm is moving offshore, but much of the eastern part of the country faces ice, bitterly cold temperatures and ...

Salt-selling stores have near-empty shelves. Prices are 3x to 4x what they were months ago. Now, communities are salting only highest-priority roads.

Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan, gave a harrowing and heart-rendering account of her childhood under Nazi ...

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