Neiman Marcus, the last remaining department store at Northbrook Court in the northern suburbs, is setting the record ...

More than a month's worth of rain fell on Chicago in 90 minutes on Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). "There were numerous reports of flooded viaducts, several reports ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the United States opened in Chicago in 1930, while the first one in Asia opened in ...

The first two years of NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race were accented by rain, but maybe the third edition will be a charm for ...

New findings show that the stage of normal cell development at which B cells transform into leukemic cells impacts treatment ...

Maps show Villanova University is about 17 miles away from the University of Pennsylvania, and Villanova is about 12 miles from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of ...

The University of Illinois Chicago is partnering with Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges of Chicago to ease the way for CPS students to and through college.

Not many people outside of Chicago know that the city doesn't actually have an officially sanctioned list of neighborhoods like, say, New York. Instead, the city has 77 community areas—which ...

Route map of the Floridian. Amtrak has unveiled the new temporary train route offering daily direct service from Chicago to Miami, passing through several major cities along the way.

McClendon produced the color-coded map of CTA “L” lines, which were renamed and identified by color, starting in 1993, and he later was the creator of the Chicago Department of Transportation ...