Dave Daruszka opened a recent presentation on the history of Chicago’s railroads by blowing a handheld train whistle. “If you’re standing on the tracks and you hear this sound, you’re dead,” he told ...

Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.

U.S. railroads are learning to shift their presidents as smoothly as they shuffle freight cars in pushbutton yards. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad needed to find a replacement for Louis W.

CHICAGO (CBS) — An important Juneteenth history lesson took place in the Chicago Loop, a key role in freeing slaves, and hundreds walk past the Monadnock building in the Loop every day, not realizing ...

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