CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Tommy guns of St. Valentine's Day are considered the most notorious weapons in Chicago crime history. They are two priceless submachine guns, fully automatic, that produced a ...

You might think that, having been raised a mile from where 10 workers were killed and 30 more were shot by police while picketing a steel plant, I would have heard of such a tragedy. More confounding, ...

Illinois has a special connection with Memorial Day, which was often called Decoration Day when this Baby Boomer was a lad. As I noted in my book “Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern ...