People living near railroad tracks in west suburban Hillside are making some noise about freight train horns that blow at all hours of the night.

One person was killed and two others were injured when a freight train collided with a landscaping truck Thursday morning in ...

A crumbling rail overpass in Back of the Yards was the site of a violent riot that erupted during the Pullman strike of 1894, ...

One person is dead and two others were injured Thursday morning when a Union Pacific freight train engine collided with a ...

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 ...

One person was killed Thursday after a landscape vehicle collides with a freight train on State Street in Elgin, officials say.

A woman in her 40s survived but was transported to the hospital with injuries after she was hit by a freight train near the ...

A freight train derailment early Friday blocked all tracks on the Metra BNSF line between Aurora and Route 59, halting service for several hours. Service resumed around 8 a.m., but riders were warned ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- A crash between a train and a truck shut down west suburban roads on Thursday morning, Elgin police said. Police issued an advisory on the road closures at about 7 a.m. due to a ...