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The history of the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway traces to 1888 when the villagers of Pawnee built a rail line from their town to the Illinois Central Railroad mainline 15 miles south of Springfield, at a junction point that would come to be known as "Cimic", an acronym for Chicago & Illinois Midland-Illinois Central, and is still listed as such on maps today.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
Springfield-Sangamon Transportation Center is a planned intermodal transit station in Springfield, Illinois, that will serve Amtrak trains, intercity buses, and Sangamon Mass Transit District bus and paratransit services. The station is under construction at 9th and Adams Street in Springfield, just north of the Sangamon County Courthouse ...
Springfield station is a brick railroad depot in Springfield, Illinois, the state capital. It is at mile 185 on Amtrak 's Illinois and Missouri Route . As of 2007, it is served by five daily round trips each way: the daily Texas Eagle , and four daily Lincoln Service frequencies.
Construction of the Springfield-Sangamon Transportation Center at the downtown transfer center began in 2021, [17] and improvements are under construction to an adjacent railroad. When complete, the new facility is expected to become part of the Chicago Hub Network, Illinois' new high-speed rail system, [18] with stops by trains and intercity ...
IL 97 (Jefferson Street) – Petersburg, Springfield 168.7: 271.5: IL 29 north (J. David Jones Parkway) – Mason City, Springfield, Airport, Illinois State Military Museum: south end of IL 29 overlap: Springfield: 170.44: 274.30: I-55 BL / IL 29 south / Historic US 66 (Peoria Road) – State Fairgrounds: north end of IL 29 overlap
The rear of Central Station in February 1971, showing the large Illinois Central sign. By May 1, 1971, the startup date of Amtrak, Central was used only by trains of the Illinois Central Railroad (including the City of Miami, City of New Orleans and Panama Limited on the line south from Chicago, and the Hawkeye on the line to the west) and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis ...
Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois; Camp Ellis, Bernadotte, Illinois; Camp Pine, Des Plaines, Illinois Camp Skokie Valley, Glenview, Illinois; Camp Thornton, Thornton ...