J. F. Tucker, Illinois Central general superintendent, named the next stop for himself. At times the company abandoned the last names of its employees and shareholders and chose more romantic names. Echoes of far-away places came to the Illinois prairies with the founding of Polo, named by an Illinois Central agent for explorer Marco Polo. The lure of the railroad was strong enough to induce the village of Homo to change its name to Sublette to correspond to the name of the Illinois Central station. The railroad age in Illinois has long since passed its golden years.
Planes carry the passengers and trucks carry the freight.
But the changes wrought in Central Illinois by the Illinois Central railroad live on.