Monday Evening Memories
This evening we take a look back at the Chicago & Eastern Illinois in an excerpt from Chapter Two of Rails Around Northern Illinois. C&EI train #4, The Danville Flyer, rounds the curve in Chicago Heights in April 15, 1967, heading north behind E7 #1101 for a 9:15am arrival at Chicago’s Dearborn Station. The Danville Flyer departed Chicago daily at 5pm as #3, arriving in Danville at 7:30pm. It would return to Chicago in the morning, departing at 6:45am as #4, essentially being a Chicago-Danville commuter train. (Clyde Anderson)
Rails Around Northern Illinois, the third installment of our tour of Illinois, is enroute from the printer and is due in stock early October 2026. This is my biggest book ever at 360 pages and 1000 all-color photos from Chicago to Galesburg, Freeport, Rockford, Savanna, Silvis and the Wisconsin border, as well as south to Momence and near Kankakee. The price until delivery is $64.95 plus USPS shipping. Once in stock, the price will be $69.95. Order yours today!
