Route 66 is one of the United States' original highways, spanning from Chicago to Santa Monica, cutting right through Springfield. The 96-year-old roadway is a looking glass into the past, as it is ...

Tia Brown, a 4th grade Chicago Public Schools teacher and mom of three, was born and raised on the city’s West Side, where she and her husband hoped to buy their first home when they began looking in ...

Filmmaker and native Chicagoan Bruce Orenstein guesses that 98%, maybe even 99%, of city residents don’t know the full history of segregation in Chicago. “Maybe they’ll know a little bit,” he said.

Ilana Trachtman was thinking of getting married at a theme park. Well, a former one. Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for ...