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April 25, 2017 (April 25, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Disaster in Naperville

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One of the state’s lesser-known catastrophes, the Naperville Train Crash on April 25, 1946 marked a turning point in the town’s history. In those days half-rural, with some of its […]

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March 24, 2016 (March 24, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Workin’ on the Railroad

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Though another state calls itself the Crossroads of America, Illinois deserves the title as much as any of the Lower 48, for here the prairie gathers the railroads and interstates to […]

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