An 1869 view of downtown Champaign shows angular ‘north-south’ streets between present-day Washington Street and Springfield Avenue running parallel to the Illinois Central Railroad tracks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Jan. 10, 1948: The combined years of service of two veteran Illinois Central railroad engineers who retired Jan. 1 total just 100. They are H.P. “Pat” Hall of Chicago, who is retiring on ...

Except for the donkeys. Years ago, after the Illinois Central Railroad ceased operating the branch line that once passed through town, the freight depot was moved from Fifth and Birch streets to a ...