Benjamin Holt's photographer coined the term "caterpillar" after seeing the first crawler tractor at work on the Holt ranch. Caterpillar celebrated 100 years of the crawler tractor during a worldwide ...

Grounded in central Illinois throughout its century-long history, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has seemingly been smitten by corporate wanderlust of late, moving its headquarters from ...

PEORIA — Peoria wasn't always a company town. It was a distillery town, a farm implement town and a river town before the Caterpillar Tractor Co. set up shop. A bond developed between company and town ...

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — Donald Trump told a crowd at his first campaign rally since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for president that he had better knowledge of equipment produced by ...

Caterpillar Inc. is celebrating its 100th year in 2025, a company with deep roots in central Illinois. One local family has had five generations employed at Caterpillar, starting in 1926. This story ...

Caterpillar is moving faster in expanding its line of Navistar-built Cat Trucks following the 2011 introduction of its original CT660 with a setback steer axle. Last fall brought the CT681, with a ...

Peoria wasn't always a company town. It was a distillery town, a farm implement town and a river town before the Caterpillar Tractor Co. set up shop. A bond developed between company and town that ...

EAST PEORIA — Forty years ago this month, the doors of a new factory just across the Illinois River from Caterpillar Inc. headquarters opened for the first time to reveal a radically updated and ...

EUCHEEANNA — While taking breaks from serving as a doctor of internal medicine and cardiology, James Sheppard spent two weeks every summer for 47 years exploring 42 states and Canada on unique ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Peoria wasn’t always a company town. It was a distillery town, a farm implement town and a river town before the Caterpillar Tractor Co. set up shop. A bond developed between ...