A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

The Rev. Julian Cook struggles to explain to people who don’t live in Lincoln Heights how he felt when neo-Nazis arrived on the village’s border in early February. Anger. Sadness. Revulsion ...

The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

Once upon a time, the Prince of Wales came to you might say a magical place called The Mansion House hotel in Mount Carbon, ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $12 million.

Regional animosities have existed in Illinois since before it was admitted to the Union in 1818 as the 21st state, and only ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...