The City of New Orleans is an Amtrak passenger train which operates on an overnight schedule between Chicago, Illinois, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The train is a successor to the Illinois Central Railroad's Panama Limited. The train gained its current name in 1981; Amtrak operated a daylight train with the same name over the same route in 1971. Additional corridor service is provided between Chicago and Carbondale, Illinois, by the Illini and Saluki.