Tara McAndrew McClellan
Credit WUIS/Illinois Issues
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Eighty-two years ago, theatrical impresario Orson Welles panicked the nation with his company’s “War of the Worlds” Halloween Eve radio broadcast. That... -
When Prohibition became law 100 years ago, it led to bootlegging and gang warfare throughout Illinois. Its effect in Chicago is well-known, but its... -
The worst pandemic in recent history, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the 1918 so-called “Spanish flu” pandemic, caused... -
One was sold away from her children. Another was freed and became a businessman. Others were freed only to be kidnapped and sold back into slavery.... -
2020 is the 75th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. Without Illinois, there wouldn’t have been nuclear medicine,... -
2020 is the 75 th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. Without Illinois, there wouldn’t have been nuclear medicine... -
It was a logical step for a state that granted suffrage rights years before. -
Prairie politicians didn't let challenges, like rules, get in their way, historians say. -
Part 1: Radium poisoning took the lives of perhaps thousands of female factory workers, many in Ottawa, Illinois, in the last century.
