Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on “law and order.” Attendees appointed a committee to work with the city to ...

In 1841 he led Belgian Jesuit Pierre De Smet and a number of emigrants west across Kansas and Nebraska ... a century later would begin the push to recognize the Oregon Trail, map, and mark it. Also in ...

In 1854, the New England Emigrant Aid Company sent a hardy band of 29 men to found a city in the Kansas Territory, hoping to settle the land with as many abolitionists as possible. The hope was ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

Elissa Mendes is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto. Reach her via email: [email protected] ...

Frederiksen announced plans for her visit after U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. air base in Greenland last week and accused Denmark of underinvesting in the territory. Greenland is a ...

Morton and his wife, Caroline, moved to the Nebraska Territory in 1854 onto a 160-acre treeless property. Many settlers in what was then the Nebraska territory lamented the lack of foliage ...

But when Kansas became a territory in 1854, getting the news was a serious business. Probably no other region’s history is so linked with newspapers, specifically those papers produced weekly ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds N at 13 mph (20.9 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C). Cloudy with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C). Winds variable at 9 to 15 mph (14.5 to 24.1 kph). Rain today with ...