CHICAGO, May 3.-President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinois Central Railroad tonight, after a conference with W. J. Hanrahan, Vice President and General Manager of the company, issued a circular ...

Illinois Central Railroad was once one of the mightiest businesses in the Midwest. Beginning in the 1850s, “The Main Line of Mid-America” rolled freight and passenger trains out of Chicago ...

A freight train on the Illinois Central Railroad, this morning, when four miles East of Gelman, Ill., ran off the track, and a man named JOHN COOK was badly hurt, and two of his children were killed.

DECATUR - After what has for some seemed an eternity, settlement checks from the class-action lawsuit against Illinois Central Railroad finally are making it to their destinations.

DECATUR — After what has for some seemed an eternity, settlement checks from the class action lawsuit against Illinois Central Railroad are finally making it to their destinations.

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two ...

The author of a new book claims that the late Hunter Harrison singlehandedly saved the Illinois Central Railroad when he ran it between 1992 and 1998. Not exactly.

A Hyde Park, Chicago event honored victims, survivors and first responders of the deadly 1972 Chicago train crash on the Illinois Central Railroad.

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Illinois 13 (E. Main Street) near US-51 (N. Illinois Ave.) will be closed for several days in June while crews perform repairs on the railroad crossing.

MATTOON -- An area historian is set to discuss the building of the Illinois Central Railroad during a program Thursday evening at the Mattoon Public Library.

Lyn Hannah started out as a brakeman on the Illinois Central but will retire Friday as one of Metro-North's top ranking executives ...

Seventy-five years ago, two veteran Illinois Central railroad engineers were celebrating their retirement. This history and more: ...