Decades ago, Washington Square Park often drew crowds of 2,000 or more, and by the early 1900s it had acquired the unofficial ...

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

Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...

The new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago features exhibits rooted in personal objects and stories from people who ...

A one-of-a-kind Chicago museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. The National Public Housing ...

The National Public Housing Museum opened April 4 in Chicago, with installations and exhibits as well as intimate individual, family, and community stories of living in public housing.

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 ...

Good news for Chicago's curious youngsters: the One Lawndale Children’s Discovery Center is an in-the-works children's museum that will offer kiddos ages 5 and younger a whopping 25,000-square ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... At Manufaktura’s Factory Museum, faded photos provide insights into Lodz’s transformation (in the early 1800s ...

Awards in 2024 ranged from $240,000 for the Chicago History Museum to more than $1 million for several state library training programs named for former Republican first lady Laura Bush to nearly $ ...

A person wearing a shirt covered in books holds a copy of the novel "Fahrenheit 451" while protesting in support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Thursday, March 20 ...