Chicago River dividing the city of Chicago, Illinois. The largest city in the Midwest, and the third most populous in the country, Chicago is a beacon of culture and commerce in the nation’s flatlands ...
The 1950s brought the Chicago area some of its hottest summers of record, landing four in the top-10 warmest: 1955, 1959, 1953 and 1954. The 1955 summer ranks as the city’s all-time warmest dating ...
It seems that unlike recent years, the 1950s and early 1960s in the Chicago area experienced colder winters. I recall that ice skating at Phillips Park Lagoon in Aurora was so popular that the ice ...
Like its Midwest rivals, the Chicago & North Western Railway jumped on the idea of brand-named passenger trains. However, it ...
Clockwise from upper left: Sun Ra, Phil Cohran, and members of the AACM, probably in 1968. Left to right, on the ground: Wadada Leo Smith, Sarnie Garrett, Wadsworth Jarrell Jr., Muhal Richard Abrams, ...
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In Chicago, LGBTQ+ historian John D'Emilio has been writing and researching about the community for five decades.