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 famous for its deep dish pizza, Cheap Trick, the Willis Tower, and the sock monkey, but the Prairie State is also a hotbed for sightings of cryptozoological ...

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It’s located along a commuter rail line that connects directly to ... Representatives of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker did not immediately respond to a request ...

This week we use a century old map to uncover long forgotten historical ... A Look Inside The Abandoned Packard Automotive Plant Ph.D. student fact-checks disturbing claim about wind turbines ...

Engineering students from Heriot-Watt University are spearheading calls to reopen a rail route that last served neighbourhoods in the south of Edinburgh over 60 years ago. The six-strong team of civil ...

Illinois state Rep. Ryan Spain ... Republican voting power because of gerrymandering in the legislative district map, at the state Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Springfield, Ill.

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five voters on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map as unconstitutionally drawn to favor ...

BARRINGTON, Ill. (CBS) -- This past Saturday marked a year to the day since a northwest suburban teen was hit and killed by a Metra train while on her way to school. All this time later, many ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin City Council will vote this week on funding for a new trail that will transform abandoned rail tracks and bridge the southern portion of the city with the Austin-Bergstrom ...

New Jersey has nearly 600 abandoned mines, according to state officials. (See an interactive map of abandoned mine ... Route 185 in Illinois was closed for about a month last summer as workers ...