The Chicago Urban Heritage Project aims to digitize historic fire insurance maps from Chicago to create an historically ...

Illinois Department of Transportation is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Route 66 with a new map detailing the historic road's evolution and sights.

Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on. On March 7, 1965, the world looked on in horror as activists were bloodied because they were marching for ...

Google Maps will depend more heavily on artificial intelligence to help people figure out where they want to go and the best way to get there as part of a major redesign unveiled on Thursday. The ...

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Google is also promising a “complete transformation” of the navigation experience in Maps, with the biggest update in more than a decade. It’s called Immersive Navigation, and it will begin its ...

The storms also produced exceptionally large hail. One 6-inch diameter hailstone measured in Kankakee, Illinois, may be considered for a new state record.

Strong thunderstorms are sweeping through the Chicago area Tuesday afternoon, evening and into Wednesday, sparking possible ...

The city of Chicago and immediate surrounding area were not affected by destructive and deadly tornadoes Tuesday night, but heavy and noisy storms did leave several areas flooded.

Exclusive: Hudson Webber claims a store manager said another employee at a different location was being terminated ‘for the ...

There could be another McAuliffe representing Virginia soon. Dorothy McAuliffe — the former first lady, onetime state department official and wife of then-Democratic Gov.

Bernard LaFayette, who is known for participating in the Freedom Rides and overseeing the voter registration campaign in ...