MACOMB, Ill. (AP) - The property-collecting board game Monopoly is a staple in many American homes today. However, the concept for the game was actually derived from the board game The Landlord's ...

Elizabeth Magie — a writer, inventor and feminist — was one of the pioneers of land-grabbing games. In 1904, she received a patent for the Landlord’s Game, which was meant to educate people ...

It was a woman by the name Elizabeth Magie, more popularly known as Lizzie Magie, who laid down the basics of this beautiful game. Born in 1866, ...

Magie would speak out against Darrow to The Washington Post and The Evening Star in the 30s. According to Hasbro, which has owned the rights to Monopoly since 1991, the history of Monopoly is a ...

More than a century ago, Elizabeth Magie developed two sets of rules for a board game that would become known as Monopoly. There’s the one we know today: You play an aspiring real-estate tycoon ...

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie invented the game we now call Monopoly over a century ago. In The Monopolists, Mary Pilon endeavours to bring her out of obscurity. This advertisement has not loaded yet ...

Elizabeth Magie was born in Macomb on May 9, 1866, to James K. Magie and Mary Jane Ritchie. Her 783-square-foot childhood home and barn, now private property, ...