Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

Steve Lasker, a pioneering photojournalist in Chicago, spent decades photographing the life in and around the city. From devastating tragedies like the fire at Our Lady of the Angels School to ...

Although the stadium is being demolished, the legend of Pawtucket's colorful mayor will live on, the author says.

A coalition of progressive activists, faith leaders and organizers from across the country gathered Saturday at Woodlawn’s First Presbyterian Church for the People’s Agenda, a forum on immigration, ec ...

Organizers need about 328,000 signatures to get on the state ballot and 52,000 for Chicago. A signature-gathering kickoff event is planned for April 30.

In the 1970s and ’80s, Chicago fashion designers held their own against the top names in the industry. Today, the city’s ...

This had something to do with my father, Herb Cohen, who, on the heels of the success of his book “You Can Negotiate ... along with Mayor Richard J. Daley and the Bears’ George Halas.