Data from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity indicates that almost 2,100 workers statewide will be laid off this summer.

1992: Chicagoan Bill Pinkney sailed into Boston Harbor having circumnavigated the globe all by himself, the third American ...

This suburb of Chicago is famous for its historic streets, local eateries, and beautiful green spaces. It also has an ...

In a world obsessed with bigger, faster, and louder, Princeton stands as a gentle reminder that sometimes the best life is found by slowing down, looking around, and rediscovering the joy of community ...

There’s a place in Illinois where the clock seems to tick a little slower, where strangers wave hello, and where the biggest traffic jam might involve a tractor and three cars on Main Street.

A Casper man’s lifelong passion for railroading led to a career as a passenger train conductor. The 82-year-old loves trains ...

After years of negotiations, Union Pacific Railroad has given Metra an ultimatum: Compromise on fees to use UP tracks or face ...

A project to reconnect Taylorville and Pana has been completed thanks to funding from the Illinois Department of ...

The history of humans and nature interacting makes Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline a perfect laboratory for a course that ...

Shortly thereafter, it got into Chicago’s South Side on the Kensington & Eastern Railroad to connect with the Illinois Central’s line going downtown. IC steam locomotives pulled the trains until that ...

Those changes would reduce square footage of the project to be built over the railroad ... keep the Chicago Bears in the city. The developer later released a video showing how One Central was ...

Chicago Tours with Geoffrey Baer is available ... The city saw an angle. It allowed the Illinois Central Railroad to run its tracks right up the lakefront on a trestle about 100 yards offshore.