CHICAGO (WLS) -- The 27th Street station is rarely used these days and the Illinois Central Railroad is no longer in operation. But, it was along these same tracks still used by the Metra Electric ...

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But the reason is relatively simple: the Illinois Central Railroad. Here's what it looked ... which then spread out into a delta as it approached Chicago. The city is very southern, as a result ...

the railroad missed the county seat in Urbana by almost 2 miles. The Illinois Central was criticized by some for missing Urbana. A letter appearing in the Chicago Press and reprinted in the Urbana ...

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two ...

Jan. 10, 1948: The combined years of service of two veteran Illinois Central railroad engineers who retired Jan. 1 total just 100. They are H.P. “Pat” Hall of Chicago, who is retiring on ...

Established in 1853, the town is named for the Illinois Central Railroad. A route from Centralia became the railroad’s Chicago branch, stretching all the way to Lake Michigan’s shores.

There could be at least 200 sites in Illinois that are part of the network. A task force created by a 2023 law to explore ways chronicle Illinois’ Underground Railroad history announced its ...