The company’s origins date from 1893, when founder Hyman Freedman made seats for horse-drawn carriages in Chicago and exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Now, workers — including ...

An extraordinary private club turned hotel, the Chicago Athletic Association has restored rooms, amazing views of Lake ...

The company’s origins date from 1893, when founder Hyman Freedman made seats for horse-drawn carriages in Chicago and exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Now, workers — including ...

From snorkeling to a shipwreck to fishing in the lake, observing NASCAR to a rodeo, Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago's lakefront and all it has to offer in his latest special.

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

The mansion spent most of the 20th century cut up into apartments before being turned back to single-family use in the late ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, Chicago fashion designers held their own against the top names in the industry. Today, the city’s ...

You'll get access to an ad-free website with a faster photo browser, the chance to claim free tickets to a host of events (including everything from Summerfest to the Milwaukee Film Festival), access ...

On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux-Arts building that would soon ... the throngs visiting the nearby Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, a carnival of never ...

In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into a world-dazzling showpiece ... the steel used by the fair, was struck by a brainstorm ...