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.

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of ...

"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 ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war UNITED NATIONS -- South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war ...

The new 'Toxicator' ride at Alton Towers was forced to close on its opening day after a burst pipe spewed 'brown liquid' near frustrated visitors. Riders were left 'so disappointed' after being ...

Countless people are living in makeshift shelters, camps or host communities with ... 2025 [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters] Sudan’s civil war could ultimately lead to the country’s partition ...

My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...