On April 21, 1967, at least 10 tornadoes touched down in northern Illinois. The most severe of these touched down in ...

Dillinger ducked the authorities until 90 years ago this week. His Chicago whereabouts were given up by a woman desperate to ...

Although he wasn’t blind, he sang in three different gospel groups known as the Blind Boys before making a splash on the R&B and pop charts.

“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke ...

While federal immigration enforcement shrank when many agents left Chicago in November, the aftermath is affecting what people do every day in Little Village, Pilsen and the Southeast Side.

Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland discusses how schools have become a key site of struggle amid rising fascism in the US.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, American cities built downtown malls as an emergency response to suburban flight. As middle-class shoppers left for car-oriented suburbs, city centers hollowed out ...

Lawmakers from several states are trying to woo the Bears away from Chicago. Arlington Heights in Illinois, Hammond, Gary, Portage in Indiana — and even Iowa have pitched stadium plans. Indiana Gov.

As Mr. Jackson’s body lies in state in South Carolina on Monday, the city of Greenville, where he fought civil rights battles, is wrestling with how to pay its respects.