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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

MATTOON -- An area historian is set to discuss the building of the Illinois Central Railroad during a program Thursday evening at the Mattoon Public Library. Don Chamberlain, a retired teacher and ...