A storage unit hunter from Florida thought he won the unit of a lifetime from a storage facility on Chicago's Northwest Side, ...

The Illinois legislature has passed a package of funding measures to support Chicago-area transit agencies, while also restructuring those agencies. The 1,043-page Senate Bill 2111 will wipe out the ...

1912: Medinah Temple, a rectangular building with a pair of crescent-crowned domes and Arabic influences, opened on Wabash ...

In 1961, the massive, 50 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union over Novaya Zemlya. In 1972, two ...

A new PBS doc narrated by Edward Norton follows the 60-year fight—and triumph— to convert abandoned railroads into trails for ...

The city is home to a vibrant jazz scene and the Chicago Jazz Festival. But it’s hard to catch the genre on the local radio ...

The Chicago History Museum will explore the heritage and traditions of Latinos, and the National Museum of Mexican Art will trace the role of Mexicans in railway work.

One of the Chicago & North Western 400 passenger trains, the Twin Cities 400 leaving Chicago on July 23, 1963. B.L. Bulgrin Like its Midwest rivals, the Chicago & North Western Railway jumped on the ...

From Rails to Trails airs Monday, October 20 at 9:00 pm on WTTW and streaming on the PBS app. If you’ve ever walked on Chicago’s trail, The 606, you have tread where freight cars once rumbled through ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday seized an opening to sound his frequent argument that imposing huge tariffs on foreign goods would amount to an economic elixir — one that he claims would raise ...

The Chicago International Film Festival, which returns this weekend, debuted 60 years ago under the direction of 22-year-old independent filmmaker Michael Kutza with financial and in-kind support from ...