For three horribly sweltering days in the summer of 1995, Chicago endured the deadliest stretch of heat ever recorded in the United States. The death toll ultimately numbered an estimated 739 ...

In 1982, seven Chicago-area residents were killed after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules.

Nearly ten years before Haymarket, dozens of strikers were killed in a clash at 16th and Halsted.

Thirty years ago this month, activists — many fighting for their lives — took to downtown in one of the biggest AIDS demonstrations in history. Here’s how that pivotal protest played out, in ...

The voice of a pilot in a passing Cessna crackled through: “Oh shit.” “American, uh, 191,” Rucker radioed, “do you want to come back — and to what runway?” One second, two seconds ...

How does the catalog-loving retailer, famous for such eccentric and extravagant products as the Navigable Water Park, continue to survive in the age of Amazon?

New evidence suggests that cutting up America's cities along racial lines exacerbated the problem, with effects that lingered for decades.

The building, red bricked, colonnaded, crowned with a white cupola, sits on a grassy knoll in northwest Hinsdale. Unmarked, unremarkable, it barely registers as anything more than a garden-variety ...

Chicagoland began sprawling in the wake of the Great Fire—and its infectious growth influenced the spread of other cities, laying the groundwork for suburbia as we know it.

In 1905, a rash of football fatalities almost snuffed out the sport before it began, leading to bans from Illinois school boards and the president's intervention. Another crisis in the 1960s was ...

We asked experts on local government to explain the causes of the state’s sleazy political culture. Without so much as a wink or a nod, they gave answers ...

A year older than Chicago, the booming western suburb boasts big-city amenities, small-town charm, good schools, plenty of jobs, and a willingness to tackle its tough problems. Last year Money ...