The future of NASCAR in Chicago is murky going into its third edition on the first weekend in July. The three-year contract ...

Forty feet underground, the city's once-bustling system of freight tunnels remains. Social media videos show adventurers and ...

Like many communities in the 19th century, when a rail line opened in an area, it was one more step out of the wilderness.

From Fernandina Beach to Clay County to St. Augustine, top 10 projects inserted by lawmakers into state budget for ...

This story is the first of three about the building housing the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park.

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In the run-up to (and celebration of) the Chrysler Corporation’s centennial, the firm’s history has been well-documented. Walter Chrysler, famously, used his management of the Maxwell Motor Co. to ...

As local legend goes, the bridge served as an escape route for Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger. The notorious outlaw crossed it in a stolen car while high-tailing to Chicago after a shootout ...

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Numbered 5300, it was a star of the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse, a celebration of the centenary of the B&O, alongside several other B&O steam locomotives.

Working on the railroad may have been a hardening regimen for doughy middle-class boys; for others, it was a sort of French Foreign Legion way station between prison gates and semicivilized society.