A review of the Tribune’s archives produced 18 events in which the governor activated the National Guard within Chicago. Only two of them — both during the 19th century — involved a sitting U.S.

The Pulitzer Prize– and Emmy Award–winning journalist recounts a story of hope and heartbreak on the South Side of Chicago.

This is not a decision to be taken lightly. But doing nothing while violence claims more lives is not an option either.

As Illinois mourns the weekend passing of the rarest of politicians — bipartisan former Gov. Jim Edgar — Editor Jeff D'Alessio asked a panel of historians, political scientists and others ...

We in this 'City of the Big Shoulders' are preparing for a likely Donald Trump-ordered invasion of federal immigration agents ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Here’s how the final day of his life ...

Calvin Coolidge was not amused. It was 1919, and the Republican governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge by name, had had it with a lawless “police strike” in Boston. Almost 100 years later, in 2018 ...

CHICAGO — We here in this "City of the Big Shoulders," this diverse, beautiful, complicated Midwestern metropolis, are preparing for a likely Donald Trump-ordered invasion of federal immigration ...

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt began his acting career as a child and was quick to earn critical acclaim. Starting with musical theater at the age of four, he went on to make his mark on both small and ...