The Libertyville Historical Society is racing to save the rapidly deteriorating 165-year-old banner by fundraising $30,000 to ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution ...

The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has ...

Illinois shaped Memorial Day with Alton’s historic parade and the tragic 1937 Chicago Memorial Day Massacre, honoring ...

Brian Maloney remembers taking family road trips to Gettysburg and Fort Sumter and other historical sites, but never realized ...

It is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes to attack arts and ideas, seeking to shut theaters and other “dangerous” places ...

Lorain County Veterans Service Commission officials deserve credit for purchasing 39 books from the 103rd Ohio Volunteer ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

National Museum of Public Housing leaders hope visitors see there’s more to life in public housing than what's on the news.

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...