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The Amtrak executive who embraced managerial freedom and risk-taking in the company’s product line era of the mid-1990s to ...

Metra has donated F40C No. 614, one of just two such surviving locomotives, to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM says in a ...

Illinois may be know as the Land of Lincoln, but the attractions it offers for kids and families go beyond the 16th president ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved rail safety upgrades near Zeigler. According to a release, the ICC authorized ...

Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the ...

The paint scheme of locomotive No. 1616 will feature “the unique colors of Lincoln’s era,” UP (NYSE: UNP) said in a press release. It also honors steam locomotive No. 119, one of the two engines ...

All aboard the Peoria Train Fair at Illinois Central College in East Peoria. The event had more than 100 tables set up and 41 ...

The Dixon City Council was presented with a budget of about $33 million Wednesday to pay for its various capital improvement projects in fiscal 2026. The projects include the construction of multi-use ...

After complaints over odors and dust went unheeded, the chief executive of the suburban Hampshire company TiEnergy says he ...