1893: Visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago got to ride the debut of the first Ferris wheel, which was ...

1933: Century of Progress — the city’s second world’s fair — opened in Chicago. With a book of plays in front of him, George Halas, head coach of the Chicago Bears for 39 years ...

Leo will “offer a special video message to the young people of the world” during the event on June 14 at Rate Field, home to the Chicago White Sox, according to the announcement. The event ...

Tucked away between trees at the Cumberland Avenue end of World's Fair Park is a statue of Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, a man with seemingly no connection to Knoxville.

For decades, some of the city's brightest students have shown their very best at the Chicago Public Schools ... scientists together at the fair. It means the world to Carrie Kaestner, a teacher ...

A decade earlier, George Keck created a sensation at Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair with his glassy, 12-sided House of Tomorrow. The Kecks went on to have a 50-year career designing modernist ...

Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images "Club World Cash Grab" and "Fair Share Now" brandished on their warmup shirts, Seattle Sounders players protested the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup ahead of their MLS ...

Chicago Public Schools (CPS ... arguing that leniency in grading won’t translate into success in the real world for students, according to a report. "When students graduate and are working ...

Whether it is a teeming metropolis or a rural village, there always seem to be residents ready to point out why their community is the best place in the world. In the case of major cities ...

According to the air quality tracking site IQAir, Chicago’s Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 160 — down from a peak of 166 earlier in the morning — was worse than any major world city ...