Best bet to rename Metra rail lines: Use history, geography as a guide
As a transportation planner involved in the creation of the Regional Transportation Authority in the mid-1970s, I applaud ...
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Looking for Lincoln program to explore Underground Railroad around Chicago
Chicago’s role as a “hotbed of abolition” while helping Blacks escape slavery in the South before the Civil War will be the subject Wednesday of a Looking for Lincoln Conversations online event. More ...
Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was ...