Video footage obtained by NBC Chicago shows the moment a freight train collided with a semitruck at a rail crossing in suburban La Grange, leading to hours of Metra service delays. The video shows the ...

The heavy haul trucking company whose rig was stopped on a grade crossing and struck by a Union Pacific Z-train a year ago, ...

A rail crossing in suburban La Grange was closed Friday afternoon after a train collided with a semitruck, according to officials. Police advise local residents to avoid the area of the crossing as an ...

Both truck drivers involved in the separate crashes earlier this week were able to get out of their vehicles before freight trains barreled down on them. Schertz police said they cited the driver of a ...

Pedestrian killed by freight train near Washington Street in Downers Grove. Tips? Call Metra Police at 312-322-2800.

Police are investigating whether a driver was intoxicated when he allegedly rammed into an SUV stopped at a railroad crossing, pushing both vehicles into a passing freight train early Wednesday ...

HILLSIDE, Ill. (WLS) -- 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. Rail officials say they have ...

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 ...