The Ethnic Heritage Museum and Graham-Ginestra House hosted a free program focusing on the contributions of Irish-Americans ...

From folk music to abolition and women’s rights, Illinois helped shape American history and culture.

A graduate of Stephen Decatur High School is representing the United States on one of the biggest stages in sports.

SOMERS POINT — More than 220 years after Richard Somers IV was killed during the First Barbary War, volunteers at the historic Somers Mansion continue preserving the colonial home tied to his family’s ...

Friends and family gathered to celebrate the boxing heavyweight’s new prime real estate where the Rocky statue once stood.

It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted. Today, as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the sacrifices of those who died for that landmark law are in question.

The Tribune is taking a look back at what the Chicago area and the state of Illinois have uniquely contributed to the nation — and the world — over the last 250 years.

A chief of staff to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams and several other people have been charged in a federal indictment in connection with alleged bribery scheme involving a city contract.

Less than two weeks after welcoming a newborn into the world, Genna and Dylan Drew were already living inside every parent’s nightmare. Their baby girl, Vienna, born Tuesday, Jan. 13, remains in the ...

Although he was not, as he claimed, the leader of the first blackface minstrel troupe, he indisputably led one of the most renowned. During a successful run that included a ten-year stint on Broadway, ...