Third St. in Alton, Illinois, seen June 22, 2023, is an Underground Railroad site. The Henry Irving house in Jacksonville, Illinois, was used as a way station for the Underground Railroad.

The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force, created through a bill last year, is implementing a strategy to better tell the movement's story.

A man was seriously injured when a freight train hit a car in Harvard, Illinois, early Thursday morning. According to the ...

The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) released its annual reports on incidents involving hazardous materials (hazmat) on Illinois railroads.

A pending railroad merger could impact train traffic and Amtrak service in Southern Illinois and elsewhere in the state served by the City of New Orleans, Illini and Saluki lines, leading some ...

The arrival of railroads in the early 1850s had a monumental effect on Illinois, giving the state a developed means of transportation as well as an economic springboard. The state went from having ...

“By any means necessary” was no overstatement when it came to the life-or-death flight to freedom through Illinois’ Underground Railroad. John and Eliza Little walked hundreds of … ...