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Edith Renfrow Smith was born in Iowa two weeks before the start of World War I. Her earliest memories involve the end of the war in 1918 and a neighbor who came home having lost both legs. She met ...

Resident of the Windy City lashed out at the Trump administration with a staggering number of submissions for an innocent ...

Bally's Chicago might not open its $1.7 billion permanent casino in the River West neighborhood in September as planned, and ...

Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma is among a group of historic churches nationwide being awarded $1 million grants. The ...

Bally’s Chicago may not be opening its new permanent casino this year after all. With its already extended temporary license ...

James Cameron’s epic topped the North American box office charts for the fifth straight weekend with $13.3 million in ticket ...

Video from news helicopters showed fire shooting through the roof of the True Light Temple of Praise Baptist church on Drexel ...

Bally’s Chicago may delay the opening of their permanent casino location in River West for as much as another year into the ...

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