that risky gambit pales by comparison with the shenanigans of board members during the Great Depression. For many months, the board simply didn’t pay its teachers and other employees.

Men wait in a soup line during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The homeless sleep under West Adams Street in 1931 Chicago. An unemployment march heads past Sangamon and Monroe streets in 1932 ...

One of the few bright spots in Illinois during the Depression was another World’s Fair in Chicago in 1933. Called “A Century of Progress,” the fair was located on 427 acres of reclaimed ...

As Illinois battled to overcome the Great Depression, another fight simmered ... Horner carved a reputation for fairness and justice during seventeen years in office. An unlikely candidate for ...

“The best analogy, really, is the Great Depression.” Mihm, who researches early American history, said it’s likely that some of the hobbies that became popular during the pandemic could be h ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Patton covers the financial markets, economy, and national debt. There has been a lot of talk comparing this economic ...

March Madness afflicts millions of American sports fans each year during ... in the Great Depression. "The annual tournament of high school boys basketball teams, sponsored by the Illinois High ...

Modern labor laws were developed during the Great Depression to protect workers ... dug into the facts to find out where Missouri and Illinois stood when it came to work breaks.

Simply put, our economy, with high gas, rent, and food prices, is so bad right now that it's putting a bigger financial strain on Americans than what they experienced during the great depression.

But we found this is based on a flawed methodology and a misunderstanding of the scale of deprivation during the Great Depression. Brown did not respond to PolitiFact’s inquiries sent to her ...