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 ...

Cadillac is well-known today as one of America's longest lasting luxury brands, but the 122-year-old automaker would have gone belly up during the Great Depression ... in spite of Illinois having ...

“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 ...

I lean bullish at the moment on silver, and for this article, I thought it would be useful to review historical silver prices during the Great Depression era as this is something I left out of my ...

Sally Young received funding from the Australian Research Council for research into Australian newspapers. Many newspapers betrayed their readers during the Great Depression and now some are doing ...

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 ...

no one has documented the life of the farmer better than the photographers of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information during the Great Depression. Tasked by the US ...

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 ...