The best weekend destinations close to Chicago require no flights. Here's where to go within three hours of Chicago.

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That National Weather Service has issued an air quality advisory for most of Michigan's Upper Peninsula ... or unhealthy (red). The map below displays the current air quality at monitoring ...

NEW YORK — A full shutdown of one of the tubes of the East River Tunnel in New York City began Friday, impacting Amtrak services in and out of the city. Amtrak announced in February a new train ...

MICHIGAN CITY — The 67-year-old Michigan City man that was killed early Thursday when his Honda Accord was struck at the railroad crossing on Tryon Road by an Amtrak train traveling 59 miles per ...

Michigan Central was a wonder in its day, but after World War II, rail travel lost ground to airplanes and cars. By the 1970s the building was little but a half-closed Amtrak stop, and in 1988 it ...

This is *** picture of 43 year old Daniel Livingston from Michigan. He was last seen checking ... at 9:40 a.m. He was supposed to get on an Amtrak train from Milwaukee to Chicago, then another ...

Several northern states in the U.S. might be able to see the northern lights on Sunday, June 1 and Monday, June 2, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The northern ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul met with Amtrak Thursday amid rider concerns about how the closure of East River Tunnel will affect ticket prices. ALBANY — Following commuter concerns that scheduling ...

A farmer’s market is within walking distance. Royal Oak has an Amtrak station, 10 minutes from the building on foot, and beaches on Lake Erie are within an hour’s drive. Chicago and Toronto ...

WASHINGTON — “Train Daddy” is officially back. Former Transit President Andy Byford has formally joined Amtrak’s Board of Directors to oversee the long-delayed revamp of Penn Station ...