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Edith Wilson may have wielded more power than any first lady in U.S. history for a period during the second term of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency but, i...

It’s easy to take the phenomenon of the Sunday paper for granted. Until just recently, the idea of a metro Sunday newspaper complete with color comics...

When you talk about great Chicago cuisine, you're talking about Italian beef sandwiches, deep dish pizza and the Chicago hot dog. Those are just ...

When you talk about the state of rural America, the story usually involves boarded-up storefronts and shrinking downtowns. Declines in jobs and popula...

Rachel Koller Croft is on her first book tour …and loving it. A screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles, Croft has added novelist to her job description...

“Burner” is the new action adventure novel, the 12th in the “Gray Man” series by Mark Greaney, but it could also describe the author’s career who’s de...

Jeff Karzen is a sportswriter who’s now telling the world what Peoria sports fans already know: that basketball plays a major role in the community.A ...

The history of air travel in this country has been marked by a number of celebrated moments in history—the Wright Brothers’ first ascent, Lindbergh’s ...

 Joe Sawchak is a collection assistant for the Section of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pa. We called h...

Alice Boyes believes you can be more productive. You just need to learn what helps you innovate, produce, and flourish... without the burnout. Her boo...

So the Midwest is fly-over country, is it? Everything that’s worth anything is found on the U.S. coasts, is that what you think? Then you need to hear...

If you can keep up with all the names, this is a prehistoric creature that may interest you. The entelodont, otherwise known as dinohyus or daedon, wa...