Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

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During the course of the program, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War-David D Porter Camp will ... to major winter storms expected to hit Chicago area this week Light snow and below ...

(Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) Workers were afraid to go to ... the U.S. Constitution more than 150 years ago following the Civil War,” he said in a statement. “No president has the authority ...

Halbrook filed a resolution in the state legislature in which he and six co-sponsors asked the U.S. Congress to recognize Chicago as ... which was during the pre-Civil War era and allowed Missouri ...

talks with teammates in the dugout during a spring training game against the Dodgers on Feb. 28, 2011, at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune) Sergio Santos takes ...

Johnson is doing so on the fly during ... of Chicago.” The next day, the mayor began an answer about Trump by noting “there are people who have not accepted the results of the Civil War ...

At the heart of the lawsuits in the three cases is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred ... present in the U.S. during hostile occupation ...

Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he’s talked about during the presidential ... aftermath of the Civil War and ratified ...

How the freshman, progressive Chicago mayor responds to threats against immigrants could shift the course of his political future during a moment ... the El Salvadoran civil war, said she ...

The bipartisan act, the first piece of legislation approved during Trump’s second term ... has been used to house detainees from the U.S. war on terrorism for years. But authorities have ...