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1943: During bad weather, a United States Army Air Corps B-24 Liberator crashed into a 500-foot-tall gas storage tank at Municipal Airport (now known as Chicago’s Midway International Airport). All 12 ...
Batavia MainStreet opened its farmers market for its 30th year on Saturday. The market in Batavia will be open from 8 a.m. to ...
The Chicago Bears have flirted with leaving Chicago and building a stadium in Arlington Heights for more than 50 years.
One person died and two others were pulled from the wreckage of a partially collapsed church on Friday, after severe storms ...
A popular Des Moines DJ, producer and cultural curator will headline the second annual Middle of NOWhere Rural Art and Music ...
The National Endowment for the Arts cancellation of grants promised to arts organizations across the country May 2 was ...
He learned from Mississippi Fred McDowell, opened for Muddy Waters, recorded with B.B. King and put out well-received albums ...
The museum is conducting an internal review while emergency meetings are held to discuss implications for its leadership and image. The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the United States’ most ...
"The Núhi Grant was built on a simple belief: that the most vital Native art often stays close to home," said Reid Walker, founder of the Walker Youngbird Foundation. "Hayden's project honors the ...
CHICAGO (WGN) – The president of the Art Institute of Chicago is on voluntary leave from the museum after an alleged incident on a United Airlines flight last month. On Friday, April 18 ...