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A representative of developer CaliberCos. Inc. says he plans to move ahead with home and commercial construction on a 135-acre property west of Interstate 25 and north of Colorado Highway 402 in ...
The first U.S. production AC-traction locomotive, BNSF Railway SD70MAC No. 9400, has been donated to the Illinois Railway ...
Nobuki Sugihara was 19 years old when, in the summer of 1968, an unexpected call came in from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo. A ...
By the mid-1960s, a familiar sound began to fade from the daily life in Bloomfield — the whistle of the trains announcing ...
This photo provided by U.S. Postal Service shows a guided missile carrying 3,000 letters, fired from the submarine USS ...
Los Angeles' Union Station will give visitors a closer look at Southern California's railroad history during Train Festival ...
Thomas Anthony Durkin, an internationally prominent criminal defense attorney who for five decades was a fixture in Chicago’s ...
(WTFC) on Monday reported second-quarter earnings of $195.5 million. The Rosemont, Illinois-based bank said it had earnings of $2.78 per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average ...
On this warm Saturday, the Chicago & North Western 1385 was idle and its 10 wheels still. There was neither black smoke nor white steam, although its brass bell was being rung enthusiastically by Pete ...
Four of Illinois' 40 native snake species are venomous, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Staging “The Railway Children” with a real steam engine was the brainchild of the director Damian Cruden, who first presented the show at the Railway Museum in York, England, in 2008; later ...