Aurora University is gearing up to replace its existing library with a new forward-looking Learning Commons designed to bring people together.

U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, a Maryland Democrat, is urging President Donald Trump to reinstate former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden — five days after Trump abruptly fired the longtime Baltimore ...

A new study published in recent days argues that the city of Chicago is slowly sinking, raising risks of flooding and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of birds are making a crucial migration through the Chicago area. We are right in the middle of a peak migration season, and homeowners are being urged to take steps to ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

An article by Harry Targ & Jay Schaffner describing Jewish working class radicalism in Chicago during the 20th Century.

The National Public Housing Museum is sited at 919 South Ada Street inside the last remaining vestige of Jane Addams Homes, a New Deal–era campus by Holabird & Root.