Leroy “Satchel” Paige would probably not want this story written. “I want to be,” he once said, “the onliest man in the ...

More than a month's worth of rain fell on Chicago in 90 minutes on Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). "There were numerous reports of flooded viaducts, several reports ...

The NASCAR Chicago Street Race takes over Illinois today. Here's the Grant Park 165 live TV schedule, time, where to watch, streaming, course map and more.

Every city is famous for something. In fact, some places are famous for many things, even the Rockford area. From a bustling ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

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Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the United States opened in Chicago in 1930, while the first one in Asia opened in ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

In parts of Chicago, flash flood alerts rang Tuesday, warning of dangerous conditions as cars were stranded and submerged on ...