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 ...

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 ...