Lansing's Pioneer Motel was originally the Dutch Mill Motel, built in 1951 along the newly opened Tri-State highway, was a ...

After 175 years of patience and persistence, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed a piece of their ancestral land ...

The BSCP was chartered under the American Federation of Labor in 1925: it unionized Black men who worked as porters on Pullman railroad cars.

The president and his Silicon Valley oligarch pals want to bring back the bad old “company towns” of yesteryear with a fresh ...

But after a monstrous tornado ripped through the Illinois town of Murphysboro on March 18 ... Deadliest twister in recorded U.S. history The deadliest twister in recorded U.S. history struck 100 years ...

The deadliest tornado in recorded U.S. history occurred 100 years ago, tearing through Missouri, Illinois and into Indiana, and killing 695 people.

A historic piece of Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood is at risk of falling into disrepair, and supporters are rallying to save ...

On March 8 — International Women's Day — the Bears hosted the first ever collegiate women's flag football game in the state of Illinois. A crowd of coaches ... "We had the most powerful woman in the ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

His case highlights Chicago’s history of wrongful convictions ... case is part of a broader pattern of wrongful convictions in Illinois, which has seen more exonerations than any other state.

(The Center Square) – In just the past few months, the deterioration of Lincoln’s New Salem in Petersburg, Illinois, has gotten worse ... Brothers building have completely collapsed. Another historic ...

“I don’t know why we are spending close to a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money for a rebuild,” said James Soto, an exoneree who served the longest wrongful conviction sentence in Illinois history.