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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of ...

Illinois residents may feel some solidarity ... Arkansas defaulted in 1933 as it struggled to repay debt during the the Great Depression. Spending on an ambitious road-building project and a ...

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.

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 ...

The Empty Stocking Fund has been supporting neighbors in Knoxville during the holidays for more ... had only been around for 21 years when the Great Depression hit in 1929, but the Knoxville ...