CHICAGO (WLS) -- The 27th Street station is rarely used these days and the Illinois Central Railroad is no longer in operation. But, it was along these same tracks still used by the Metra Electric ...

CHICAGO (CN) - Since the 1980s, the Illinois Central Railroad has illegally sold abandoned properties it did not own to "hundreds" of Illinois residents, a class action claims in Cook County Court.

In the mid-1930s, a dangerous Illinois Central railroad crossing in Grenada, Mississippi, had claimed too many lives. Local ...

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.

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 decades ...

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