Gov. JB Pritzker shared his efforts to expand workforce training at Illinois Central College as part of his announcement to ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced June 23 that Illinois 49 at the TP&W Railroad crossing in Crescent City in Iroquois County is closed for repairs. The crossing ...

This story is the first of three about the building housing the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park.

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The exhibit is called “Journey to Freedom: Illinois’ Underground Railroad” and will be open to the public from April 10 through May 30 in the newly renovated Illinois Room at the library.

Watco Railroad Company Holdings will purchase Great Lakes Central Railroad, expanding its Michigan presence. The deal is subject to approval by the Surface Transportation Board. Great Lakes ...

A new traveling exhibit has landed in Central Illinois highlighting the state’s history with the Underground Railroad. Beginning around 1820, thousands of enslaved people fled the south in search of ...

The Godfrey depot, located off Pearl Street, was a key hub for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, ... 210-pounder is the only remaining Illini from the 2023-24 Illinois Elite Eight team.

An 1863 map of Champaign County shows Mink Grove, highlighted in green, just west of Rantoul and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks that bisect the village. Provided ...

The Underground Railroad was a secret network of travel routes and safe houses that guided slaves to free states in the 19th century. Latest U.S.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A state task force is making recommendations to enhance educational and historic remembrance of the Underground Railroad in Illinois during the 1800s.

Several sites in Battle Creek are being added by the National Park Service to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.