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Autobahn was the first purpose-built motorsports country club in the United States, and has inspired several others. The club has a sanctioning body called Autobahn Member Racing, which hosts series for Spec Miatas , GT cars , karts , Radical Sportscars , a discipline called Chase Racing similar to bracket racing , open wheel cars , as well as ...
The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company (reporting mark ITC), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from 1896 to 1956.
Staunton grew with the introduction of the railroad and a coal mine in the 1860s. New immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Italy moved to Staunton, and the community soon became one of the largest cities in southern Illinois. The Staunton Star-Times started publication in 1878. In 1891, Staunton applied for city status and elected its first ...
Keokuk Electric Car & Power Co. [63]: 173 Warsaw ― Hamilton ― Keokuk (Ill.) Electric Interurban October 4, 1903 May 15, 1928 Bluff City Electric Railway [64] Waukegan: Electric 1891 1947 See the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad in which the Bluff City Electric Railway was a subsidiare. [65] Chicago, Elgin, and Aurora Wheaton, Il ...
Hemmings Motor News is a monthly magazine catering to traders and collectors of antique, classic, and exotic sports cars.It is the largest and oldest publication of its type in the United States, with sales of 215,000 copies per month, and is best known for its large classified advertising sections.
Additional car types manufactured included boxcars and gondolas. Most cars were designed for standard gauge interchange service on AAR-approved railroads within North America. Many tri-level autoracks built by Thrall exist today, identifiable by the blue Thrall rectangle logo present on either the extreme right or left end of the car side.
As the Journal Star reported in its Aug. 4, 1974, edition, Hoover was one of 12 Mattoon High School cross country runners to make the roughly 140-mile drive up for the race.
U.S. Route 66 originally followed IL 4 north of Hamel. This alignment navigated through Staunton, Sawyerville, Benld, Gillespie and Carlinville to Nilwood. The section of US 66/IL 4 from Nilwood to Girard was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 2002. [6] Route 66 continues along IL 4 north through Virden, Thayer, to ...