The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored ...

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

Springfield, Illinois (AP) — The US Justice Department and a central Illinois sheriff’s ... in the shooting death last summer of an unarmed Black woman in her home after she called 911 for ...

In the early 20th century, newspapers reported that it was more dangerous to be a US worker than it was to be a soldier. Desperate men, women, and children sacrificed their health, safety, and ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.

Historical and sociological perspectives reveal why certain societies or subgroups resist change, often rooted in cultural ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...