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 ...

McDonald's had grown into an increasingly popular fast-food establishment. The first drive-thru was introduced in 1975.

Six homes will be featured Sunday, May 4, when the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest hosts its 21st spring ...

By the 1970s, just a decade into its operation under businessman Ray Kroc, McDonald's was already ... McDonald's dining experience for families and children. While parents relaxed and ate their ...

by Ray Kroc, who got the idea from a hamburger restaurant ... Syria, including dozens of children. In 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire ...

Friends of Kroc’s established The Ray Kroc-Ronald McDonald Children’s Fund—now Ronald McDonald House Charities—to support Ronald McDonald Houses, which provide a “home away from home” for families of ...

Among the 700 or so who survived, most were women and children. On this day in 2019 ... being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre the night before 1955: Ray Kroc launched the first-ever ...

She inherited her estate, valued at about $2 billion, from her husband, McDonald's founder Ray Kroc ... which houses ill children and their families near hospitals around the country. "Mrs. Kroc liked ...

All money raised from the Dream Home giveaway goes directly to St. Jude Children's Hospital to help kids battling cancer. Two rounds of golf for four guests at Fallen Oak and a $250 restaurant credit.