This 1898 map shows Underground Railroad routes overlaid with a drawing of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (left) and the Thomas Hoyne residence (right). Newberry Library, Library of Congress, Chicago ...

ITASCA, Ill. (WLS) -- Federal regulators have given the green light to a railroad merger that could bring more freight trains through the Chicago area. A coalition of western suburban towns has ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Federal regulators have approved the first major railroad merger in more than 20 years, signing off on Canadian Pacific's $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern. While ...

The Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas — once a stop along the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery and a home to abolitionists during the “Free State” era — received ...