This Week in Illinois History provides a 90-second snapshot of an event significant to Illinois history. Join Host Clint Cargile as he covers big events while also exposing little-known pieces of ...

CARLINVILLE — A new, full-length book on the history of Illinois celebrates the state’s bicentennial while covering the fascinating people, places, and events of the last 250 years in the state. “The ...

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute’s Renewing Illinois program encourages Illinois university students to discuss and debate creative solutions to revitalize the Prairie State. While preparing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Elizabeth Bauer is an actuary who writes about retirement policy. In 2008, then-Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass wrote a column ...

The National Firearms Act was enacted on June 26, 1934. The impetus for it was the gangland crime of the Prohibition era and the attempted assassination of President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb ...

Editor’s note: The weekly Illinois Bicentennial series is brought to you by the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors and Illinois Press Association. More than 20 newspapers are creating stories ...

This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ended the constitutional right to abortion access by overturning two landmark decisions, Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood of ...

Hey Chicago — do you know how long laws governing abortion have been on the books in Illinois? Since Abraham Lincoln was a teenager. But, how did we get from a statute outlawing the sale of ...

A Bloomington-Normal historian says bicycles were once a top export from the state of Illinois. Manufacturing centers in the state, including Peoria and Chicago, made two-thirds of all bicycles sold ...

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You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or that it’s thought to be the first majority-Black town in America to ...