Artists recently painted viaducts where Ricardo Alonzo and students had created environmentally themed historic murals a half ...

A man, 39, was found unresponsive with cuts to his body around 1:50 a.m. near railroad tracks in the 3400 block of North ...

Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to ...

The Midwest Underground Railroad Network and Chicago Association of African American Storytellers are presenting freedom ...

A brutal heat wave that developed in July 1995 led to a powerful derecho that caused a significant swath of damage across ...

Real estate magnate Joseph Chetrit, developer Joseph Moinian and Skokie-based American Landmark Properties bought the tower ...

Like many communities in the 19th century, when a rail line opened in an area, it was one more step out of the wilderness.

A West Chicago man with multiple felony convictions allegedly pointed a loaded gun at people in a car on over the weekend.

Chicago has granted demolition permits for a collection of grain elevators that preservationists have sought to preserve.

Abandoned since an explosion in 1977, the new owner of the silos has been planning to tear them down — and will begin doing ...

CHICAGO, June 30.--The residents on the "West Side" have come to town to-day on foot, in wagons, and every way except by the usual street car lines. The expected strike of the drivers and ...

The engine headed via rail car on Thursday from Middleton to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom.