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The national oral history project StoryCorps plans to honor each person killed on 9/11 with a recording by a friend or family member that will be part of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.StoryCorps, which is heard weekly on public radio, said Thursday that it has already memorialized ne

A southwestern Indiana community that was founded by freed slaves in the 1840s expects its annual Labor Day weekend events will be busier than usual as word spreads that its story will be included in the Smithsonian Institution's new African-American history museum.Some 1,500 people typically visit

Of the 900 men who mustered into the 95th Illinois Infantry in 1862, only 153 were still in the regiment by the end of the Civil War. Albert DJ Cashier was one of them.That’s historic because Albert was a woman.He was born Jennie Hodgers in Clogher Head, Ireland on Christmas Day of 1843.

Of the 900 men who mustered into the 95th Illinois Infantry in 1862, only 153 were still in the regiment by the end of the Civil War. Albert Cashier was one of them. And that’s historic - because Albert was a woman. He was born Jennie Hodgers on Christmas Day of 1843, in Clogher Head, Ireland.

The northwest corner of Diversey and Pulaski is a parking lot today. But at one time it was the site of a lovely Chicago landmark.In 1935 the Olson Rug Company was expanding its Diversey Avenue plant. Company president Walter E.

This year, some unusual performers will appear in the lineup for the Chicago Jazz Festival: contestants from the Louder than a Bomb youth poetry competition will perform between musical sets over the weekend.

 Forty years ago, the hippest trip in America left the station. Soul Train — the little Chicago engine that could – went on to become the longest-running, nationally-syndicated show on television. Before longtime conductor and host Don Cornelius was moving to the