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 ...

The Canadian National Railway, which acquired the Illinois Central Railroad in 1998, said Tuesday it would acquire the Wisconsin Central Transportation Co. in a deal valued at $1.2 billion.

The author of a new book claims that the late Hunter Harrison singlehandedly saved the Illinois Central Railroad when he ran it between 1992 and 1998. Not exactly. Gift Article 10 Remaining As a ...

Abraham Lincoln spent more time working for the Illinois Central Railroad than any other employer aside from his public service as a state representative, a Congressman and president of the United ...

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 ...