We know the White House can be targeted and destroyed. In August 1814, a British force attacked Washington and burned many ...

Read about the 19th century portrait of Abraham Lincoln that guided President Theodore Roosevelt and will soon go on public ...

The building was demolished, as many smaller structures are, section by section. First came the roof, then a portion of wall. That’s when workers found the skeleton wedged between a ...

Here’s a look back at our state’s fabulous firsts — ideas that took root here in Illinois before they captured the world’s ...