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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Hannah, 69, retires Friday after 41 years working on a railroad, a profession that remains male-dominated. After her start as a brakeman at Illinois Central, Hannah worked as an assistant ...

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. Don Chamberlain, a retired teacher and ...