The Sun-Times has a piece about the mayor's plan to renovate City Hall and consolidate city offices into the building at a cost of $12 million, with projected future savings to come. It's worth ...
In September 1938, approximately 260 Street Cleaning and Highways Bureau employees were abruptly fired. In response, sanitation workers went on an eight-day stoppage that included strikers — and their ...
St. Augustine is one of the most haunted towns in America, thanks to a jail built by Henry Flagler in 1891. The Old Jail, as ...
New York City has been in a constant state of construction since the very beginning. Throughout its history, the city has evolved into an architectural destination. With the 400th anniversary of the ...
The most obvious place to start is in the gutted shell of the Cathedral Church of St Michael. These Gothic ruins hint at Coventry's medieval past. Although, like many places, very little of medieval ...
Digital archivist Erin Gray prepares to scan a photo in a small office upstairs at the Truman Courthouse in Independence, Missouri. It’s one of more than 300,000 images from the Wilborn Collection, a ...
Most people who walk through Central Park, from tourists to lifelong New Yorkers, have no idea of the history under their feet. In 1825, a 25-year-old African American shoe shiner named Andrew ...
The most obvious place to start is in the gutted shell of the Cathedral Church of St Michael. These Gothic ruins hint at Coventry's medieval past. Although, like many places, very little of medieval ...