The time zones were enacted during the General Time Convention at the Grand Pacific Hotel at LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. A plaque at the location — which is just north of the ...

A look at unique features and changes to the area amidst the demolition of the Nicollet Avenue bridge over the Midtown ...

On any given afternoon in Pierre, a line of cars may sit quietly at a railroad crossing, drivers idling with their thumbs ...

Near the end of the Rev. David Black’s time on the stand in a federal courtroom in Chicago this month, the judge asked the ...

Acclaimed illustrator and author Jeanette Winter, a pioneer of picture book biographies and nonfiction, many of which focused ...

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when ...

In the 19th century, changes to maps were not just frequent but practically routine. “Between 1862 and 1896, there was only one election year in which at least one state did not redraw its ...

The Habitat Company is proposing 227 townhouses on the 28-acre former factory site, which has been vacant since 2007.

They've survived world wars, the great depression, the atomic age, and the dawn of the internet. They are buffalofish—and many of them are over 100 years old.

Official measurements don't capture the number of jobs tied to the industry, the value-add to the U.S. economy and the ...