High winds downed trees and damaged structures across the Chicago area Friday, including blowing the roofs off a school and ...

Fire insurance maps are an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand how cities have changed over the past century. The challenge has always been unlocking what's inside them—that is, until ...

The Chicago Urban Heritage Project aims to digitize historic fire insurance maps from Chicago to create an historically accurate and downloadable building footprint data layers. And it’s all led by ...

Plenty of people have heard of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but Holland and several Michigan communities were also hit hard by wildfires that same fall.

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Police in Austin, Texas, have released surveillance video, police body camera footage, police radio traffic and harrowing ...

Chicagoans love these Illinois restaurants worth the drive. Discover unforgettable food stops across the state that locals secretly road-trip for.

Discover Chinese buffets in Illinois that locals can’t stop eating at, serving endless plates of noodles, dumplings, and ...

At a time when American travelers are obsessed with security few are paying attention to the safety of individual ...

Anyone who has moved away from their hometown for a longer period of time has probably experienced that feeling of returning and finding that the cityscape has changed, for better or worse. It can be ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — When the Rev. Jesse Jackson was growing up in Greenville, S.C., his friends and neighbors knew that the tall, talkative child wouldn’t stay in the city all his life. His ambitions ...

Discover the changing landscape of downtown Evanston with the latest survey on retail storefront vacancies. Find out which ...