A biker rides the I&M Canal Trail as it passes through Utica on Aug. 31, 2012. There are many Underground Railroad sites in Illinois that were used in the 19th century, before and during the Civil ...

It will improve crossing surfaces and install 25 miles of 115-pound rail, 20,000 ties and seven switch sets, and 7,600 tons of ballast along the 17-mile corridor on the IR’s La Salle sub from ...

Illinois coach Bret Bielema has often praised defensive back Miles Scott this season. It was two years ago when he made the switch from wide receiver to defensive back.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 15 other attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to stop enforcing a federal ban on switch devices that ...

The Illinois Railway Museum — often called the Museum in Motion — in McHenry County has taken over the collections of three transportation museums unable to navigate through the recession.

But only nine years ago, in the Illinois state senate, he co-sponsored a bill that strengthened his state’s 1961 Stand Your Ground law. Top Stories The Sudden End to Tariffs and the TACO Trade ...

The conservative smear that President Obama, as State Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois), supported a Stand Your Ground law has made the species jump into the mainstream media with an assist from ...