There are many Underground Railroad sites in Illinois ... Scroll past the map for descriptions of each site, listed alphabetically by region (Chicagoland and the north, central and south parts ...

During that period, Illinois Central's parent company ... company was demanding for the railroad. Bruce's line sales liquidated the debt, shrank the map from over 9,500 miles back to its 3,000 ...

Here’s a map of single-copy locations ... of towns in Champaign County, the railroad missed the county seat in Urbana by almost 2 miles. The Illinois Central was criticized by some for missing ...

The Illinois Central succumbed Tuesday to the wave of railroad megamergers as officials agreed to the proposed merger between the 147-year-old railroad and Canadian National Railway Co. The ...

Illinois Central Railroad was once one of the mightiest businesses in the Midwest. Beginning in the 1850s, “The Main Line of Mid-America” rolled freight and passenger trains out of Chicago ...