Chicago History

In the months preceding the long-anticipated NATO summit's arrival in Chicago, some feared a repeat of the chaos and violence of the 1968 Democratic N...

Although Playboy magazine officially uprooted its Chicago offices to head west for Los Angeles last month, the magazine has left behind several relics...

Considering Chicago's reputation as home to the nation's largest concentration of corrupt elected officials, it is not terribly surprising that the Se...

On April 13, 1992, freight tunnels running under the Loop were flooded with roughly 124 million gallons of water from the Chicago River, shutting down...

Chicago has a long history of larger-than-life mayors, and the city's first African-American leader was no exception. Harold Washington served as ...

Considering that one century ago, Chicago was home to one of the nation's most robust local women's suffrage movements, one has to wonder what pioneer...

Updated story St. Patrick's Day has long been a festive time to find oneself in Chicago. In a tradition that dates back five decades, the city ...

Last spring, the Chicago History Museum debuted its "Out In Chicago" exhibition, a groundbreaking, LGBT-centric take on Chicago history that emphasize...

CHICAGO — A Chicago man who confessed to one of the most shocking slayings in the city's history and paid for it with more years of his life tha...

Sunday, March 4 marks the 175th anniversary of Chicago's incorporation as a city. The city, which architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously said he bel...

Story by Tristan Cabello, courtesy the Windy City Times: In the early 1920s, African American LGBTs were integrated to Bronzeville's mainstream cul...

Hoosier native and longtime Chicago resident, Charles Cushman (1896--1972) worked at various jobs--editor, statistician, bureaucrat--but his consuming...

In honor of Chicago Restaurant Week, which begins Friday, apartment search website Domu.com has paid tribute to the city's "vintage restaurants" -- th...

CHICAGO — When this proud city welcomed back hometown hero Don Cornelius last year, it wasn't just Chicago-style – it was "Soul Train" sty...

I had the chocolate symposium and Women's History Month on my mind when I came across this image from the museum's photo history collection of glass p...

CHICAGO -- Hull House, the Chicago social services organization founded more than 120 years ago by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, closed Fr...

"To live now, as human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." Though the late historian Howa...

Though Thursday's snowfall marked the first significant snowfall of Chicago's surprisingly mild winter, the maximum eight inches of snow expected to f...

CHICAGO — For six decades, civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells was woven into the fabric of Chicago's South Side as the namesake of a public housi...

in 1951, Chicago not only had a white Christmas, but a full-blown blizzard. Between Dec. 14 and Christmas Eve that year, 33 inches of snow covered the...

CHICAGO — Imagine a city where winters are frigid enough for polar bears, where a baseball team is so woebegone it hasn't won the World Series s...

In 1998, notorious Chicago gang member Charles Edward Bey stood in front of the congregation at the Progressive Community Church on the South Side and...

Story by Tracy Baim, courtesy of the Windy City Times: The Chicago Park District held a dedication ceremony for the relocated city tribute to socia...

To commemorate the 40th anniversaryof Landmarks Illinois, a statewide organization that advocates for the preservation of historical state landmarks, ...