Seventy years ago this week, McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny place would one day become ...

A McDonald's museum was later opened to show visitors what the restaurant was like in the '50s. The McDonald brothers, Richard and Maurice "Mac" McDonald, launched their burger restaurant in the 1940s ...

When the McDonald brothers first saw the design for their new restaurant, they were concerned that the roof was too flat. Meston recommended adding the now-iconic golden arches to the building's ...