In the golden age of rail travel, downtown Chicago was home to not one, not two, but six passenger train stations. These ...

Geoffrey Baer’s latest program on WTTW takes dive deep into the links to passenger and freight railroads in the city and ...

Trains captured Geoffrey Baer’s heart early on. Growing up in Highland Park, “we were one house away from what was back then ...

WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer joins Bob Sirott to talk about his new special “Riding The Rails” on WTTW that focuses on the rich ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 4, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 5, 1977 ...