If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

With the right policies to support investment, innovation and regulation, Chicago can remain the nation's freight hub for ...

A plan to build the first transcontinental freight railroad in the U.S. is putting a spotlight on a chokepoint in American rail shipping. Today, no single railroad controls tracks from the West Coast ...

A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...