Illinois History Day (an affiliate of National History Day) is a project-based learning program for 6th-12th grade students.

Fifteen years after he wrote an outline for a children’s book, J. David Holt of Nathrop finally completed “The Mystery of ...

Lorraine Hansberry was a Chicago playwriting legend. Her father Carl was a real estate broker turned civil rights activist.

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

The story of Ross Howard Thompson, a Maryville native who died after surviving the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in ...