The Cubs home opener on April 14, 1978, is famous for its massive crowd, which topped out at 45,777 — a record for a home opener. According to the Chicago Baseball Museum, people were already waiting ...

(Chicago History Museum) 1848: The Illinois & Michigan Canal ... (Chicago Tribune) 1992: U.S. Steel’s South Works manufacturing plant at 79th Street and the lakeshore closed.

Extremist groups of the 1950s played a part, alongside real estate and neighborhood organizations, in keeping Chicago ...

in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) Mailboxes salvaged from 1322 West Taylor Street are on display at the National Public Housing Museum, built in the last remaining building of the 1930s WPA-era ...

Photo: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images This week, we're investigating this incredible photo from our Getty archives of a downtown Chicago corner in the 1950s. It's part of our ongoing "History ...

Near North Side: The Magnificent Mile and Streeterville Accessible via the Red Line's Grand, Chicago, Clark/Division ... (home of the DuSable Museum of African American History) by the Midway ...

Seventy years ago this week, a hamburger joint named McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny to-go place ...

The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn ... lawns and common areas that broke up Chicago’s ever-present street grid. The Jane Addams Homes ...

The Insect Asylum is a non-profit vintage taxidermy museum that showcases ... ve never been to the Chicago Temple, the urban Methodist church hiding in plain sight at Clark and Washington Streets ...

Tiffany Haddish: The actor, author and comedian will be on the Tampa Theatre’s historic stage at 7 p.m. Friday, April 18, for ...

Miraculously rescued from oblivion, it was recently conserved and has been placed on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American ... on the Windy City's Clark Street.