Kellogg Fairbank III, who became the Chicago Maritime Museum’s executive director after a career in business, has died.

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Chicago has always provided a place for the disenfranchised, whether from the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, or today for those fleeing violence, famine, environmental disasters or ...

Cruising down Africa’s longest river is one of the most popular tourist activities in Egypt. Here’s how to make the most of ...

Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River ...

American Airlines Flight 191 is seen plunging — the 1979 crash remains the deadliest aircraft accident in US history. | ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

That's why White and his team point to places like Farnsworth House and Monks Mound in Cahokia, near St. Louis. The ...

Located across the Chicago River from the northwest corner of the ... somewhere in its 150-year-long history, the population of the Lower West Side shifted; today, the area comprises vintage ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

Arctic cold outbreaks can seem to blend together in the pages of history. But in mid-February, 1899, 126 years ago this week, ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...