On his best days — and there were enough of them to fill up books — no one in journalism could touch Mike Royko. He was a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Bronzeville – the Black Metropolis – was the community where African Americans from the South lived and thrived in Chicago during the Great Migration. Now, an urban historian is going ...

The Lincoln Park museum announced Wednesday that CEO Donald E. Lassere is stepping down. The leadership change comes after ...

When Prof. John W. Boyer published his landmark book on the history of the University of Chicago in 2015, his work gave a valuable new window into UChicago’s past. But for Boyer, a renowned historian ...

A 256-page History of Chicago Jewry, containing 30 chapters dealing with all phases of Chicago Jewish life between 1911 and 1961, was published here today by the Sentinel of Chicago as part of the ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...