As my interest in trees continues to increase, my hunt intensified for finding an arboretum within an afternoon drive of my ...

A semi-truck tipped onto its side on westbound I-290 at IL 83 in the western suburbs, spilling salt across the roadway and shutting down multiple lanes.

The group managing on-campus housing at the East Peoria junior college will not lease units to students after the spring ...

There’s a cryptic sign outside the playlot in Jackson Park at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue that just reads “Dickerson Playground.” It’s referring to Earl B. Dickerson, a man who ...

The inbound Union Pacific North Line train at the Davis Street Metra station in 2024. Thirty years after the Metra line that ...

The City of Miami was a vibrant orange and palm green streamliner of the Illinois Central Railroad. Operating between 1940 and 1971, the train provided service from Chicago to Miami, and was powered ...

Gov. JB Pritzker's 2026 budget proposal includes $300 million for a first-of-its-kind "Surplus to Success" program that would ...

An estimated $1.1 million project to upgrade a rail crossing near Lena is approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission. The ...

Illinois Central Railroad officials in 1950 rewarded a 13-year-old boy with a gold medal and $2 for reporting a broken rail he spotted. This local history and more: ...

Longtime rail executive Jerry Peck is the new president and general manager at the Belt Railway of Chicago. Peck, who started ...

The Belt Railway of Chicago has appointed former CN and CP executive Jerry Peck as president and general manager.