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Keith Gullquist, of Braidwood, works on a LionC electric school bus at the Lion Electric plant in Joliet.

Lion Electric’s new school bus factory in Joliet aims to rewrite the rules for manufacturing in Illinois

June 12, 2023 at 11:40 a.m.

The most confounding thing about a Lion Electric school bus is that it's so simple. Workers start with a few steel beams, a couple of dozen fiberglass panels around a...

A freight train heads east toward Chicago at the BNSF Railway intermodal facility in Cicero in 2020.

California launches legal battle with railroads that could lead to reduced train emissions in Chicago

April 28, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

California launched a legal battle with U.S. railroads Thursday that, if successful, could improve the health of people who live near train yards in Chicago. The California Air Resources Board...

Norfolk Southern has been pursuing its $150 million plan to double the size of its intermodal freight yard at 47th Street and the Dan Ryan.

Moving hazardous chemicals by train is far safer than trucks, says top regulator who pushed merger and wants more freight moved by rail

March 26, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Not even the toxic fireball over an Ohio derailment could shake Martin Oberman's belief that railroads are a safer way to move hazardous chemicals, and most other freight, than long-haul...

Ald. Jeanette Taylor, 20th, speaks about the Norfolk Southern expansion during the Feb. 1, 2023, Chicago City Council meeting.

Norfolk Southern’s massive rail yard expansion plan for South Side nabs City Council approval after previous delay

February 1, 2023 at 5:34 p.m.

A massive rail yard expansion on Chicago's South Side — in the works for 15 years and requiring the acquisition of hundreds of homes in one of the city's most...

Alan Shaw, president & CEO of Norfolk Southern, at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers on Jan. 18, 2023.

Chicago is a key battleground as railroads struggle to figure out the future

January 24, 2023 at 1:20 p.m.

Alan Shaw came to Chicago last week casting himself as a reformer. At a Midwest shippers meeting, the Norfolk Southern chief executive promised to deliver resilience and growth, and to...

Ald. Jeanette Taylor, 20th, voices her displeasure with Norfolk Southern's presentation about its expansion plans in the Englewood neighborhood during a community meeting at Kennedy-King College on Jan. 10, 2023.

Alderman blocks Norfolk Southern’s Englewood rail yard expansion with delay on land vote: ‘It’s just been a disrespect to me and the community’

January 18, 2023 at 7:13 p.m.

A Chicago City Council ordinance to transfer a chunk of Englewood's roads to Norfolk Southern Railway was blocked Wednesday by the presiding alderman — the latest twist in the freight...

While Norfolk Southern touts benefits expansion will bring to Englewood; residents and contractors reject railroad promises

January 18, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Since 2014, Norfolk Southern has hired 50 workers who lived in six ZIP codes in and around the Englewood neighborhood, according to a railroad official at a Tuesday community meeting....

Línea ferroviaria desaparecida justo al norte de la 59th St., que es el sitio del sendero natural propuesto a través del vecindario de Englewood, martes, 21 de diciembre de 2022.

Cientos de casas de Englewood fueron demolidas para una expansión del ferrocarril. Los que permanecen en el sur de Chicago quieren aire limpio, espacios verdes y empleos.

January 18, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

Para cuando la concejal Jeanette Taylor llegó a la casa en la 58th St., los trabajadores contratados por el ferrocarril estaban metiendo las posesiones de una familia de Englewood en...

An abandoned rail line just north of 59th Street is the site of a proposed linear park, the Englewood Nature Trail.

Hundreds of Englewood homes were razed for a railroad expansion. Those who remain on Chicago’s South Side want clean air, green space and jobs.

January 18, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

By the time Ald. Jeanette Taylor got to the house on 58th Street, workers hired by the railroad were stuffing an Englewood family's possessions into a truck parked outside. Hundreds...

Norfolk Southern Railroad Yard in the Washington Park neighborhood on Aug. 30, 2022.

Truck and rail backups are clogging roads, creating more pollution and raising health risks for Chicagoans near freight corridors

October 3, 2022 at 4:41 p.m.

Signs everywhere in Braceville, Illinois, say trains could come barreling through at 80 mph. But workers at the Union Pacific intermodal terminal in Joliet can't always unload freight that fast....

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