Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North.
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One of the world's biggest locomotives was as long as a Boeing 747 and was powered by a coal-burning turbine that ate itself
The Union Pacific Railroad used to be obsessed with power. The railroad spent decades searching for and developing one locomotive to rule them all. This search resulted in icons like the Big Boy and ...
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded about a half an hour south of Taylorville in the early morning hours of Jan. 20. The earthquake happened in the village of Ohlman at 1:27 a.m., according to the ...
Dr. Barbara Suggs-Mason & Pat Cain talk to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about the upcoming exhibit titled Journey to Freedom: Illinois' Underground Railroad. Discover a powerful chapter of ...
About 150 protesters gathered at the Illinois Capitol on Jan. 3. Several central Illinois groups that have protested Trump policies banded together for the protest. SPRINGFIELD -- Standing on a ...
The state of Illinois football has never been better. This weekend will feature two teams from the Land of Lincoln battling for national championships: North Central will take on Wisconsin-River Falls ...
Chesterton is known for its trains, and if Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific go through with their merger there could be even more daily traffic coming down the tracks. That’s the opinion of ...
DECATUR, IL. (WAND) - Happy New Year! It wouldn’t be right to head into 2026 without taking a look back at 2025 for Central Illinois. Total precipitation for our climate site Springfield reached 26.97 ...
An EF-2 tornado with winds of up to 120 miles per hour hit central Illinois on Sunday, heavily damaging several homes, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down in far ...
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