A major project to eliminate one of the country’s longest and deadliest railroad crossings is $13 million closer to becoming ...

Walter Schultz opened a real estate and insurance business in 1923 and operated the Oak Glen post office from the south end ...

Midway Village Museum is unveiling its exhibit featuring the history of Rockford’s Camp Grant — once one of the largest ...

What originally started as a retirement project for Allen County Historical Society’s Mark Huntsman turned into a multi-year ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

A model train and toy show, dozens of museums on display, a daddy-daughter dance, adult pinewood derby and art exhibit are among the event highlights this weekend in the Illinois Valley.

A school bus company reported the theft of four catalytic converters at a cost of nearly $14,300, according to Batavia police ...

Long before it stored mowers and carts and tools used to keep a golf course well groomed, the unassuming red maintenance shed near the par-4 No. 8 hole was bustling with people. Many, perhaps ...

10 must-visit historic railroad towns will involve a journey through railroading’s past and present in these iconic ...

While Prince Edward Island no longer has an active railway, traces of its train history still exist across the island. This episode explores historic train stations, a restored railway caboose, and ...

Oct. 6, 1952, the private train “Eisenhower Express,” carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie, rolled into the Great ...