After World War II, railroads geared up for a boom that didn't happen. What spelled doom for the great passenger trains?

K.C. Hill has been working out of the Galesburg railroad hub for 67 years. Now 86, he still works full-time and has no immediate plans to retire.

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A man traveled along Wilson Street through downtown Batavia on Oct. 10, 1973, atop the city’s train depot building as it ...

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The debate over Pope Leo XIV's favorite baseball team has swept Chicago into a fierce debate over the Cubs and Sox Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.

The announcement made after white smoke poured from the poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel yesterday marked a historic one nationally and a personal one for many in the Chicago area.

CHICAGO — A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes ...