The son of 19th Century abolitionist John Rankin, whose family home in Ripley, Ohio, was a first stop on the Underground ...

Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

An 1852 map from the Boston Public Library seemingly shows empty plots of land at 44,46 and 48 Hull Street, while an an updated map reveals four properties under the name of Thomas Caswell by 1874 ...

The land was empty until multiple properties were built there in the late 1800s, old maps show. An 1852 map of Hull Street from the Boston Public Library appears to show that the plot of land ...

The Illinois football team moved into the national rankings on Sunday, jumping to No. 24 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Fighting Illini did not make the coaches' top 25, but is first among ...

It may have been a big fat lie. Boston’s famed Skinny House on 46 Hull St., the narrowest home in the city, may not have been built out of spite at all, a resurfaced 1920s article and historical ...

The online company named the Main Street in Madison County as one of the 10 best in Illinois along with St. Charles, Urbana, ...

The land was empty until multiple properties were built there in the late 1800s, old maps show. An 1852 map of Hull Street from the Boston Public Library appears to show that the plot of land where ...

Old photos and maps suggest that the skinny house was actually carved out of an existing building. There's a tiny sliver of a house on Boston's Freedom Trail. The 10-foot-wide home is sandwiched ...

Chatter around the origins of the skinny house has centered on it being built out of spite. Old photos and maps suggest that the skinny house was actually carved out of an existing building. There's a ...