In the early part of the last century, young women in Illinois were hired to paint watch and clock dials with a special ...

Like many college towns, the area around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been transformed by a surge of ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.

A Chicago-based nonprofit advocating for people living with criminal records is branching out, with its first chapter ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it’s taking down “inappropriate posts” made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised ...

Commissioners in a Florida county recently approved renaming Southern Boulevard to "President Donald J. Trump Boulevard." ...

One of the most noted moments in the ACLU’s history occurred in 1978 when the ACLU defended a Nazi group that wanted to rally through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, where many Holocaust ...

The Huns were nomadic warriors, likely from Asia, who are best known for invading and terrorizing Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and hastening the downfall of the Western Roman Empire.

For the last half-century, America’s population growth has been concentrated in the sweltering, equal parts bone-dry and ...

Eleven years after suing CME Group alleging they were betrayed after CME switching to electronic trading, old-school traders ...

Wilson spent 36 years in prison before a judge determined he was tortured into a false confession by disgraced former CPD ...