Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Beverly, New Lenox, Palos Hills, Frankfort, Palos Heights, Chicago Heights and more.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

Declaring a class-action lawsuit, a federal judge issued a nationwide block of President Donald Trump s executive order on ...

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Within hours of his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would withhold U.S. citizenship from ...

The Declaration of Independence wrote that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among ...