Early last November, about 30 of Mayor Harold Washington`s closest Cabinet, political and community advisers repaired to the Ramada Hotel O`Hare for a secret weekend retreat to talk about ...

1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world’s tallest building. At least 200 people showed up ...

Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a nighttime firefight days after the Allied Forces landed near Anzio, Italy, in 1944.

Tyrone Haymore, a longtime resident of Robbins with decades of elected service, founded the Robbins Historical Society.

The significant drops in Chicago homicide numbers matter. But the communities we serve do not feel proportionately safer.

On a rainy May day 55 years ago, more than 30 people were killed when a Green Hornet streetcar collided with a fuel truck on ...

Sigrid Schultz was the historic figure branded “that dragon from Chicago” by Hermann Göring, Hitler’s number two man angered ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

“The pope is not your friend. He is not going to sit down and have a beer with you,” he says. “If you think the pope is your ...