Kellogg Fairbank III, who became the Chicago Maritime Museum’s executive director after a career in business, has died.

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That's why White and his team point to places like Farnsworth House and Monks Mound in Cahokia, near St. Louis. The prehistoric earthen mound has been slumping, and experiencing accelerated erosion, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Windy City Weekend" had a live studio audience this Friday. And Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini had a ...

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington is one of the worst disasters for the Fort Worth ...

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The sports community is reeling from the tragic mid-air collision over Washington, D.C., which claimed the lives of 67 individuals, including several young figure skaters, their co ...

Seventeen people were killed and 159 others hurt when a full-speed train crashed into another nearly stopped on the tracks ...

A 'village where time stood still' sits just on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river and offers plenty of historical ...