The Illinois Central succumbed Tuesday to the wave of railroad megamergers as officials agreed to the proposed merger between the 147-year-old railroad and Canadian National Railway Co. The ...

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 ...

Illinois Central Railroad began construction on that marvel in 1914 as part of a project nicknamed the "Big Dig." More than a century later, this excavated rail route is still enabling trains to ...

Meeting of Stockholders of the Illinois Central Railroad. Share full article. May 30, 1867. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 30, 1867, Page 5 ...