Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Among the slew of executive orders President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office Monday was an effort to end future birthright citizenship for ...

Police responded to Evergreen Park, a suburb south of downtown Chicago, and found the abused coyote dead. The teens are due ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

Dr. Henry Louis Gates brings our hidden history to life like we’ve never seen in Great Migrations: A People On The Move, a ...

The first thing Paul Cornell did to create a community was to bargain for a passenger stop from the Illinois Central Railroad ...

Auschwitz survivor Michael Bornstein says “Nothing will be easy about returning to Auschwitz, 80 years after I was liberated. … We will be there. Will you stand with us?” ...

Opening Friday afternoon, RISE at Salt Shed is reportedly the first cannabis retail store to operate inside a U.S. music ...

Reset talks to a railroad researcher and an ‘L’ historian to learn more about the city’s commuter and freight lines.

The immigration blitz was action long promised by President Donald Trump who made mass deportation central to his campaign.

Service has been halted on two Metra lines after a train hit a car Tuesday morning near west suburban River Grove. Metra said inbound and outbound trains on the North Central Service line were stopped ...

On Monday, dozens of Barrington High School students and community members gathered next to the downtown Metra train crossing ...

For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the ...