After 100 years, a grad student accidentally found new images of the tragedy. — -- One hundred years after a boat capsized in the Chicago river, killing 844 people, archival footage of the ...
A victim is carried up the SS Eastland as the steamship lies on its side in the Chicago River after rolling over. More than 800 drowned on July 24, 1915. (Chicago Tribune historical photo) 1915: The ...
Thousands of Chicago-area commuters may be caught in a bureaucratic tug-of-war between Metra and Union Pacific, with both sides digging in over who controls access to the city’s vital commuter rail ...
As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...
Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE:UNP) plans to launch a new, truck-competitive domestic intermodal service connecting Southern California's Inland Empire to Chicago. The service is expected to ...