In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into a world-dazzling showpiece ... the steel used by the fair, was struck by a brainstorm ...

On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux ... which had tormented the throngs visiting the nearby Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, a carnival of never-before ...

Join Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, director of works for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, for a relaxing day at the fair with the Glen Ellyn Historical Society. Experience the grandeur of the ...

EXPO Chicago is back at Navy Pier from April 24–27 for its 12th edition—the second under Frieze—with more than 170 galleries from 36 countries and 93 cities.

It's not surprising that the world's most famous cities are hubs for the super-rich, nor that four American metropolises cracked the top ten this year—including Chicago. The Windy City blew in ...

"The blues is the music of Chicago," Rami Gabriel said. "We take it in, and we respect it, and we have integrated it into where we're coming from." ...

Jacksonville, Fl — This is the second (and final) week of the Clay County Agricultural Fair. Since 1987 the Clay County Agricultural Fair has provided Clay County and Northeast Florida with an ...

The Illinois State Fair is only months away ... We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. We may not know who is playing on ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill (WLS) -- Pepe is a contender for World's Favorite Penguin in the "March of the Penguin Madness" contest! Pepe the Humboldt penguin was hatched at Brookfield Zoo Chicago 13 years ago.

That rules-based world order seemed to reach its zenith at the end of 1989, when the Berlin Wall was crumbling. The scholar Francis Fukuyama observed this high-water mark in “The End of History ...

Take a look at Ticketmaster or most secondary market websites this week and there are plenty of seats still available at various stadiums for this year's Club World ... up on the Chicago news ...