Back in 2009, residents were scandalized when employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip were accused of exhuming old graves in order to resell the burial plots, unceremoniously ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — One of Central Florida’s longest-running and most well-known dinner shows is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever. 1. Capone’s Dinner Show debuted in Kissimmee back in 1992. It’s ...

Convicted murderer Doros Theofanous, known as ‘the hairdresser’, has filed an application to reopen or annul his conviction, ...

The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked ...

Springer-Coorhis-Draper Funeral Home in Monticello is inviting community members to share, remember, and learn together through a series of education, social and remembrance events planned for the ...

More than 60 people shared testimonies of Black history and memories of Tyrone Haymore at the William Leonard Library in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Of all the restaurants Al Capone enjoyed in the US, Brooklyn's Harvard Inn is among the most notorious. And it's not because of the drinks — ...

If you roll your eyes when passing the corner of Clark and Ohio streets in River North, you’re not the only one. Sneering or even clutching your pearls go back more than 30 years on this site, to the ...

History is found in many places, including a distillery in the south suburbs. Andrew Howell has decorated the walls of Thornton Distilling Company with history, from an old glass panel advertising ...

An Illinois distillery owner was astonished recently when he came across a hidden gun from the era of Al Capone — still fully loaded with historic ammo. The gun — a Colt 1908 manufactured in 1921 — ...

He had a famous name. He had a nice house. He lived among us in Miami Beach. He also was one of the world’s most notorious gangsters. Al Capone died at home on Jan. 25, 1947. Here is a look back at ...