When you board an American long-distance train, you are trading airport routine for entry into a locomotive-driven realm ...

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

Though the sight is familiar to many Chicagoans, folks braving their first Midwest winter or those who’ve never seen the phenomenon may be surprised to see small fires burning along Metra railroad ...

With the right policies to support investment, innovation and regulation, Chicago can remain the nation's freight hub for ...

The 2026 edition of Railway Age’s Next-Gen Freight Rail (NGFR) conference, March 10 at the Union League Club of Chicago, ...

Traqueros in Chicago and the Midwest” takes a closer look at Mexican railroad workers and how the roots they planted still shape communities today.

A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...

A CTA Brown Line train hit a car in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood.

CHICAGO (CBS) — An important Juneteenth history lesson took place in the Chicago Loop, a key role in freeing slaves, and hundreds walk past the Monadnock building in the Loop every day, not realizing ...

This Illinois town shaped by railroads and highways features a railroad park, local history museums, antique stores, and an ...