Native Hawaiians, or Kānaka Maoli, have a history in Chicago that goes all the way back to the World's Columbian Exposition ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

In the Niagara History Center’s Charles Rand Penney Collection, there is a sign depicting a panoramic view of Niagara Falls ...

We took a tour to check it out. Our docent was Steve Gersten, a retired trader and architecture buff. Here's what we learned.

That’s because the eye-catching shingle style brownstone structure started its life elsewhere—in Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It served as a pavilion for the state of ...

Designed by architect Henry Ives Cobb in 1893 for the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) as a private men's club, it was built to coincide with the opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition ...

Bill Price's online archive of 150,000 colorized photographs from the 1880s to the early 1950s offer a new perspective on ...

Though the lamps fell out of fashion by the 1930s, they recently have seen a surge in appeal, showing up in home décor, and ...

The Statue of the Republic, at 65 feet tall, stood across from the domed Administration Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The original was destroyed in a fire, so a replica was ...

Next week, the B&O Railroad Museum will be breaking ground for a $38 million Campus Transformation Plan, which will entail a ...