A massive commercial real estate project proposed for Chicago’s Southeast Side remains in limbo as its planners battle environmental activists over how best to rebuild the area’s economy. A group ...

“Historically, this area has been the dumping ground, not just for the state of Illinois, but for the whole Midwest,” said ...

Havencrest Castle is a 63-room behemoth that looks like it was designed by a committee of Disney Imagineers, Victorian ...

Perched atop a bluff overlooking the Rock River, Stronghold Castle is the closest thing Illinois has to Hogwarts. This ...

Because of the 9.4 million dollar deficit SIU’s Carbondale campus is running on, the School of Music faces massive challenges ...

In 1892, John Altgeld, a Prussian native, won election for one term as Illinois governor and is best known for his pardon of three of the accused in the infamous Haymarket Riot. Politically ...