A 1868 lithograph from the Library of Congress depicts Alton's riverfront, featuring City Hall and the Chicago & Alton ...

Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...

Downtown Alton was bustling with shoppers buying Easter bonnets and new shoes from stores like Kresge's and Woolworth's.

Trump's directive targets members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison ... War II, when it was used to put thousands of noncitizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent in internment camps ...

The Ashland County Historical Society (ACHS) is excited to welcome Jacob Thomas as the next speaker in the 2025 series. On ...

The act - which was last used during World War Two to intern Japanese-American ... has appealed against the judge's ruling. The American Civil Liberties Union, which was involved in the lawsuit ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

"In the dark years of the civil war, the area was used for the execution of political prisoners, or the relocation of their bodies, as it was very near the prison and was uninhabited at the time ...