Last Dec. 23, a train operating over the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad line between Omaha, Neb., and Chicago required four crews totaling 18 men. The next day, the same train making the same ...

The Illinois Central succumbed Tuesday to the wave of railroad megamergers as officials ... via hubs in Chicago and Detroit straight to the Gulf of Mexico. “It will be completely integrated ...

Primarily serving southern Canada, the railroad branches southward to New Orleans, including the former Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, running north and south through Illinois. Its longtime rival ...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2025. There are 354 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore ...

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago ... River to the Mississippi River and New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico. Construction began in 1836.

MONTICELLO — Growing up on her father's dairy farm in Normal, Donna LaMar and other children would play on the tracks of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, now known as Constitution Trail.

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Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On October 30, 1972, two Illinois Central Gulf commuter trains collided south of McCormick Place on tracks now known as the ...

Primarily serving southern Canada, the railroad branches southward to New Orleans, including the former Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, running north and south through Illinois. Its longtime rival ...