At the end of national tourism week, Governor JB Pritzker announced that over 41 million people visited Illinois state parks ...

A $1.2 million grant to restore the aged 92-foot bell tower of Pullman’s historic Greenstone United Methodist Church was ...

1927: The Stevens Hotel — then the largest hotel in the world — opened on Michigan Avenue. The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete ...

The Columbus statue removed from Arrigo Park will be loaned to an Italian American group, and the park will get a monument to ...

Though the U.S. honors workers in September — with Labor Day, which also has Chicago roots — the May 1886 events are commemorated in Chicago by a memorial on Desplaines Street, north of Randolph ...

Serena Maria Daniels is an editor for Eater, Midwest region, responsible for coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. She's a longtime Detroiter, by way of the West Coast and has been a ...

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A longstanding hotel in downtown San Diego, the U.S. Grant Hotel recently underwent some renovations. Federal judge blocks Trump order that could disenfranchise millions of voters NASA Sensor ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A local historical society has lost a federal grant to support a project preserving Kentuckiana history. On Tuesday, the Filson Historical Society said it received notice at 10 ...

Director of the Waterkeepers Program at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park. Recently, the museum was hit by a letter from the federal government terminating their grant of $250,000, effective April 8.

Chicago White Sox prospect Grant Taylor has displayed some serious swing-and-miss stuff as he continues to advance through the minor leagues. Taylor, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound right-handed pitcher ...