How does society do hard things? In this first part of our new series "Hard Things," WGLT unpacks the generational project ...

No passenger upon the Cincinnati train was hurt ... JOHN REMMER, clerk in the Superintendent's office of the Illinois Central Railroad, slightly bruised. JAMES BROWN, engineer of the Cincinnati ...

The Port Clinton-based Reading & Northern Railroad has added an updated passenger coach to its ... it was built in the 1920s for the Illinois Central Railroad. Reading & Northern recently ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Just before midnight Saturday, Illinois legislators passed a record-high $55.1 billion Fiscal Year ...

J.B. Pritzker. Illinois has a rail network consisting of approximately 9,982 miles of railroad tracks, 7,792 of which are operated by Class I railroads, primarily BNSF Railway and the Union ...

Prior to the inception of Amtrak, freight rail companies like the Pennsylvania Railroad and Illinois Central were required to provide passenger service. As rail travel dipped in the post-World War ...

Partners Illinois Department of Transportation ... last ran in 1981. To return passenger trains between Chicago and Rockford after more than 40 years, the Chicago-based Metra commuter railroad was ...

Passenger rail service would return to Rockford by late 2027 under an agreement with Metra and Union Pacific announced on Thursday by Illinois Gov ... overhead on the railroad bridge over the ...