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Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in Illinois" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners, overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line, and the engineer asked and received permission from the train's conductor to back the train to the platform. This move was then made without the flag protection required by the railroad's rules.
A kind, 70-year-old Member of Parliament. The maid claims that Hyde, in a murderous rage, killed Carew in the streets of London on an October night. At the time of his death, Carew is carrying on his person a letter addressed to Utterson, and the broken half of one of Jekyll's walking sticks is found on his body.
Crest Hill decided to incorporate itself to avoid being annexed by the City of Joliet and became officially incorporated as the City of Crest Hill January 22, 1960. According to the 2010 census, Crest Hill has a total area of 9.166 square miles (23.74 km 2 ), of which 9.03 square miles (23.39 km 2 ) (or 98.52%) is land and 0.136 square miles (0 ...
An Illinois Central train at Richton Park in 1968. By the early 20th century the IC operated up to 300 steam trains each day. In 1919, the IC and the Chicago city government collaborated on a grade separation project from the far south suburb of Homewood into the city.
The yardmaster did not remember if he said train No. 392 or passenger train, but he did not specify the locomotive's number or the track where it would operate. The switch-tender went to track 6 for a local transfer train, but as he was leaving for the crossover on track 4, he was called back by the conductor of that train to realign an ...
On the evening of October 12, 1979, a switchman incorrectly aligned a switch in front of an oncoming Amtrak train, leading it to go across a now-removed crossover into a stationary freight train. The resulting crash killed 2 crew members of the freight train in what would become known as the Harvey, Illinois train collision.
Girvies L. Davis (January 20, 1958 – May 17, 1995) and Richard "Ricky" Holman (born August 20, 1961) [1] were American serial killers who killed at least four people during robberies in Illinois between 1978 and 1979. Davis, the older of the two, told an investigator that shooting witnesses was "easier" than wearing a mask.