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A once-decrepit library on a bluff at the edge of downtown Waukegan finally came back to life last week, six decades after moving into a modern building four blocks away.
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Landmarks Illinois' 31st annual list of endangered landmarks includes a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Austin, a monumental Art Deco high school on the South Side and eight other structures.
Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...
Bloom Township is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year — it was April of 1850 when the town of Bloom called a meeting ...
Blue Star Properties made an offer to buy the old Chicago Daily News headquarters, an Art Deco building in the West Loop.
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It was considered Chicago’s first civil disturbance. 1955: Conjoined 8-month-old twin girls ... It was the worst such storm in the area’s history: Fifty-eight people were killed, including ...
The Chicago Cubs are a few years removed from their last major transformation and only have a couple of players to show for it. At the 2021 MLB trade deadline, the Cubs traded away Anthony Rizzo ...
The Chicago Cubs are a few years removed from their ... he will be able to take that next step. The 23-year-old has had a fantastic start to this season with a .271/.326/.482 slash line with ...
In Chicago, his ideas sparked a lively community of mail art clubs, turning the city into a central space for this accessible and unconventional art form. Reset learns about the history of mail ...