The International Housewares Association (IHA) held the 125th edition of its tentpole annual event, the Inspired Home Show ...

Peggy Montes started the Bronzeville Children's Museum, worked to elect Mayor Harold Washington and seeks to empower, inspire ...

Pritzker was an architecture aficionado who played a role in the creation of several cultural touchstones in Chicago.

"These women had suffered and endured so much," 22-year-old filmmaker Emma Watts said. "They've been waiting so long for ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York ...

Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” has works span hundreds of years, with the earliest piece dating from ...

Manhattan’s historic Round Barn’s significance stretches even beyond its links to Chicago’s Columbian Exhibition.

The Blue Paradox’ exhibit, sponsored by SC Johnson, immerses visitors in the global crisis of plastic pollution, while ...

But a more recent innovation was causing an even bigger stir: the Garis-Cochran Dishwashing Machine, the only device in the ...

Dr. Carla Hayden, the first Black Librarian of Congress, may face challenges when her term expires in 2026 due to political tensions under President Trump.

Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is open daily from ...