2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which ...

With dark-rimmed glasses balanced in the middle of his nose as he looked down on the man President Donald Trump wants to run ...

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founder of The Habitat Co., oversaw investments in nearly 25,000 housing units downtown and elsewhere in Chicago, often in neighborhoods considered too risky. He opened the East Bank Club in 1980 ...

He had an acclaimed Broadway career in musicals and comedies, but moviegoers knew him mostly as the self-assured, easygoing ...

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...

Jordan Stolz, 20, learned to skate on a homemade pond not far from here, amassing laps under a light pole put up by his ...

Elvis and Priscilla were married. Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and The Doors all released their debut albums. The Aretha Franklin anthem, “Repect” hit ...

Rock radio vet Frank E. Lee announced his retirement from WXRT. The big picture: Lee spent almost 45 years spinning records ...

Super Bowl 59 is underway, with the Kansas City Chiefs facing a familiar foe, the Philadelphia Eagles, hoping to win the ...

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste.

Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute ...