Niam Womack Jr., 2, enjoys a sunny day at Alton's James H. Killion Park with his aunt pushing him on the swings.

Victor Hugo’s novel about the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo, who longs for the beautiful Esmeralda, found new life in the ...

The Katy Cavins Center was built in 1926 and served a variety of uses, but city leaders determined renovating would be more expensive than replacing it.

Lollapalooza is an essential part of summer in Chicago, and a new book has created a record of the oral history of one of the ...

It’s been a long time coming,” said Scott Becker, a horse trainer and owner from Belleville, whose family has been racing at Fairmount since the 1960s.