An extraordinary private club turned hotel, the Chicago Athletic Association has restored rooms, amazing views of Lake ...

Raja Ravi Varma, often called as India's king of kitsch, crossed the narrow lines of courtly painting. He brought the gods ...

The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

Drew Kayvani is addicted to croquet. She played the lawn game in her backyard as a child, but it wasn’t until she retired and ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, popcorn machines have been serving hot popcorn to hungry snackers. The brand that pioneered ...

It was in this area that the famous 1893 World's Columbian Exposition electrified the city; the fairgrounds are now home to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, which overlooks Lake ...

Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, suffragist, and photographer. Nearly deaf for much of her life, Cannon is credited with the invention of the Harvard spectral classification system, which assigns ...

The Windy City is also called the Third Coast for a good reason—seven of them, in fact. Formerly known as Hollywood Beach, ...

Here are some things I found in The Columbian’s newsroom in the past few weeks. Eggs: On Monday, our reporting staff searched for plastic Easter eggs filled with cash and candy in our newsroom.