Don't sleep on the overnight train between Pittsburgh and Chicago. Why it matters: When factoring in security wait times, ...

Railroads proposing mergers inevitably make ambitious promises and projections, particularly about faster service and more ...

New details have been released in the death of a man found near Metra tracks in a north suburban Chicago community last week.

A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...

Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

Soon, next year we are told, the heretofore hidden history of Illinois’ Underground Railroad will begin to be assembled, documented, recorded and made public. And it only took 200 years. Soon, we are ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — An important Juneteenth history lesson took place in the Chicago Loop, a key role in freeing slaves, and hundreds walk past the Monadnock building in the Loop every day, not realizing ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - A Dubuque group is working to reinstate passenger rail service connecting Chicago to Dubuque, hoping to transform the more than three-hour drive into a train ride. Paul Uzel, a ...

Railroad Days will return to West Chicago this weekend for four days of carnival rides, games, food, music and fireworks. The festival is open from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at Pioneer Park, ...