The new multi-modal Blue Island logistics hub offers access to all Class I railroads through OmniTRAX's Chicago Rail Link. In addition to exceptional connectivity, the new site features bulk commodity ...

OmniTRAX on Feb. 26 reported launching a multi-modal logistics hub in the city of Blue Island, just south of Chicago, that ...

Construction on a new rail system connecting Rockford and Chicago is scheduled to ...

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 ...

Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

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 congressman from Illinois has called for the construction of a new high-speed rail line between Chicago and St. Louis in neighboring Missouri, which he said would cut the journey time between the ...

Chicago’s role as a “hotbed of abolition” while helping Blacks escape slavery in the South before the Civil War will be the subject Wednesday of a Looking for Lincoln Conversations online event. More ...

Regional planning officials and regulators are taking initial steps towards studying the viability and potential development of passenger rail service between Louisville and Chicago — including the ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - A Dubuque group is working to reinstate passenger rail service connecting Chicago to Dubuque, hoping to transform the more than three-hour drive into a train ride. Paul Uzel, a ...