"For more than a year, a once-grand five-story building in Washington Park has been hidden by construction tarps along Garfield Boulevard."The beautiful structure has...

"Let’s try piecing together same basic facts about the place: Where exactly was it during its early years? And how did that change as...

"The Darrow Bridge, shuttered by the city since 2013, is historic. Beyond its association with Clarence Darrow, the attorney and radical activist, the bridge...

"In this edition of ‘Lost Legends,’ we look at what is often considered the worlds first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building. The groundbreaking building...

The War of 1812: Countering Peril on the High Seas and at Home exhibit chronicles the conflict from an American perspective primarily through illustrations...

"A building is not, of course, a living thing but buildings can die and a fascinating, indeed haunting, new book offers us a graveyard...

“The extraordinary story of a forgotten philanthropist, a Jewish son of immigrants from Chicago who became a champion for black education with in the...