carriers Amtrak (AMTK) Chicago Transit Authority Fox River Trolley Museum (Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric) Illinois Railway Museum Metra MetroLink Monticello Railway Museum Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad South Shore Line Defunct railroads Electric railways and predecessors Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railroad Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company Alton, Jacksonville and Peoria Railway Bloomington, Pontiac and Joliet Electric Railway Cairo and St. Louis Railway Calumet and South Chicago Railway Central Illinois Public Service Company Centralia and Central City Traction Company Chicago, Aurora and DeKalb Railroad Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad Chicago City Railway Chicago and Desplaines Valley Electric Railway Chicago General Railway Chicago, Harvard and Geneva Lake Railway (CH&G) Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Railway (CO&P) Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Chicago and Southern Traction Company Chicago Surface Lines Chicago Tunnel Company Chicago, Wheaton and Western Railway Coal Belt Electric Railway DeKalb – Sycamore and Interurban Traction Company East St. Louis and Suburban Railway Elgin, Aurora and Southern Traction Company Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company Fruit Growers Refrigerating and Power Company Galesburg Railway and Light Company Galesburg and Kewanee Electric Railway Illinois Central Electric Railway Illinois Traction, Inc. (ITS) Illinois Valley Railway Illinois Valley Traction Company Joliet and Southern Traction Company Kankakee and Western Electric Railway Keokuk and Western Illinois Electric Company Lake Street Elevated Railroad Lee County Central Electric Railway Macomb and Western Illinois Railway Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad Mississippi Valley Interurban Railway Moline, East Moline and Watertown Railway North Kankakee Electric Light and Railway Company Northern Illinois Electric Railway Northwestern Elevated Railroad Peoples Traction Company Peoria Railway Peoria and Pekin Terminal Railway Peoria and Pekin Traction Company Peoria Railway Terminal Company Rock Island Southern Railway (RIS) Rockford, Beloit and Janesville Railroad Rockford and Belvidere Electric Railway Rockford and Interurban Railway St. Louis and Belleville Electric Railway South Side Elevated Railroad Southern Traction Company of Illinois Sterling, Dixon and Eastern Electric Railway Suburban Railroad Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company Tri-City Railway Union Consolidated Elevated Railway Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company Notes References External links Chicago & Alton Railroad Miscellaneous, McLean County Museum of History Railroads Illinois