At one time, Chicago was one of the world's leading cities for steel production. And for many years, tens of thousands of ...

A new museum is opening in Texas highlighting the lives and service of Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War to the ...

Montes' Bronzeville Children's Museum takes children through tours of exhibits featuring women pioneers like Madam C.J.

Email us. There was one survivor in the crash of a Delta Airlines DC-4 just after takeoff from Chicago’s Midway Airport on March 10, 1948. Tripolina Mio, who was badly burned, was taken in ...

While those upgrades are being made, a temporary museum site will open in Chicago's River North neighborhood. The museum will close its Skokie center starting this July and the renovations will ...

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie will be closing at the end of June for renovations. Provided Share The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie is ...

Nearly 400 historic artifacts across the breadth of Harry Belafonte’s peerless career as one of the 20 th and 21 st century’s most celebrated entertainers and lifelong activist from his ...

Overall 16.2 inches of snow — the seventh largest storm in the city’s recorded history — blanketed Chicago. In signing an executive order on March 7, 1985, that ended the city’s practice ...

In 1961, she co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago in her own living room. What started as a small space grew into one of the first institutions dedicated to ...

“From the shop’s design to exclusive merchandise and a speakeasy-inspired Butterbeer Bar, Harry Potter Shop Chicago is infused with nods to the city’s rich history and unique ...

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history. Stories include when Chicago hosted the World’s Fair, the return of ...