1975: Turn-of-the-century themed Old Chicago amusement park/shopping center — the first enclosed one in the United States — opened in Bolingbrook. It went bankrupt and closed in March 1980. Amazon ...

Chicago artists Alma Dominguez and Mario Mena depict the paths immigrants take to Chicago from Mexico and South America. Their work appears at the new home of the PODER immigrant integration center.

South Park Terrace — a near copy of Wright's long gone Francisco Terrace and featured in the film "Losing Isaiah" — and its ...

Befitting this weekend’s sweltering temps — and the official start of the summer solstice — we bring to you this photo of the ...

A new book details correspondence — letters long assumed to have been lost or destroyed -– that shed light on the nature of ...

Thousands went to the first American pope’s old haunt on the South Side to hear a message from the man they once knew as ...

This story is the first of three about the building housing the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park.