How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

In this week's Heralding Our History, the Plumstead Historical Society looks at the factors that shaped the township over the course of the 20th century.

Chicago’s founding as a city has been historically attributed to Jean Baptise Pointe du Sable. His home and his business, a trading post, were situated at the mouth of the Chicago River in what is now ...

One of the factors that plagued east-west transportation in the Missouri Bootheel was blockage by swamps running mostly north ...