The famous groundhog and his partner Phyllis welcomed two baby groundhogs -- also called pups, kits or cubs -- in March 2024, ...

Workers seeking an 8-hour workday waged mass strikes on May 1, 1886, leading to a police crackdown. Three days later, someone tossed a bomb into a crowd at Chicago’s Haymarket Square ...

If any one day can attract more meanings than one day can handle, May Day has! Few would think of it as a religious holiday, not just because it’s not a day off in our country, but rather ...

Every year, May 1 is celebrated around the world as a day of international working class solidarity. Demonstrations take place from Africa to Asia, across South and North America and in Europe.

Fresh from design school, a former tech worker tackled his first major renovation: turning his friends’ historic Queen Anne ...

Widely believed to be the city’s most paranormal hotspot, Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter carries a haunted reputation ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. William Cunningham was arrested in Chicago about six months ago on a charge of shooting a man during ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. CHICAGO, Jan. 16.--The Trustees of the Grant Monument fund to-day adopted resolutions declaring the ...

It was a spring Saturday on May ... Chicago. “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will,” they chanted in unison, demanding an eight-hour work day. That was in 1886.

While potential wintry accumulation is likely to spare most commuters Wednesday evening, precipitation that may freeze ... much of the Chicago area could see approximately .1 inches of ice ...