Old homes are full of quirky features that once served practical purposes but now often leave modern homeowners scratching their heads. Some of these features, like hidden ice doors and coal chutes, ...

You’ve got to hand it to Trap Door Theatre, Chicago’s foremost source of European-flavored, audience-challenging drama. Nobody else would dare revive a play like “The Mannequins’ Ball,” a 1931 ...

Two hours into his highly detailed witness testimony, Brian Evenson delivered an emphatic one-word response to close the direct examination in a decades-old Iron Range murder case: “Mr. Evenson ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...