The City of Miami was a vibrant orange and palm green streamliner of the Illinois Central Railroad. Operating between 1940 and 1971, the train provided service from Chicago to Miami, and was ...

An 1869 view of downtown Champaign shows angular ‘north-south’ streets between present-day Washington Street and Springfield Avenue running parallel to the Illinois Central Railroad tracks ...

A bitter memory." Nearly 80 years later, descendants of the Railroad Shop Colored Addition say their families were never compensated by the City of Miami. Their story remains a painful reminder of ...

Illinois Central Railroad began construction on that marvel ... be delayed by the Big Four Railroads east-west trains and block city streets in the process, Suerdieck said. Excavation of this ...

An 1869 view of downtown Champaign shows angular ‘north-south’ streets between present-day Washington Street and Springfield Avenue running parallel to the Illinois Central Railroad tracks ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A state task force is making recommendations to enhance educational and historic remembrance of the Underground Railroad in Illinois during the 1800s. The Underground ...