Great Chicago Fire –

Landmarks: A 200-year archive of maps faces uncertain future as 5-generation run of Chicago surveyors nears end

March 12, 2024 at 11:54 a.m.

A group of college students in Springfield was engaged in an ambitious project to digitize...

March 12, 2024 at 12:02 p.m.

An early morning fire damaged the historic Seth Warner home, one of Chicago's earliest residences...

October 3, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Good morning, Chicago. What do you know about the Great Chicago Fire? Don't be afraid...

October 1, 2021 at 3:25 p.m.

The baiduhai claimed its four-story building constructed of stone, brick and iron at the...

November 4, 2021 at 11:17 a.m.

Our family stories about the Great Chicago Fire are like many of Chicago's stories about...

October 1, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

A DNA test kit that came as an anniversary gift dropped two bombshells in Cindy...

September 30, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

What could be among the oldest surviving Chicago city records sit inside a special climate-controlled...

September 30, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

On Chicago's East Side in the middle of an old industrial site, a semicircle of...

October 1, 2021 at 6:52 p.m.

On a weekday morning in late summer, at the corner of Front and French Streets,...

September 29, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

In 1871, Chicago was a city made of wood. Houses were built of wood; streets...