Memorial services for Rufus Dawes Beach, 85, a Chicago area lawyer for almost 60 years, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Walker Chapel of First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, 1427 Chicago Ave., ...

As soon as Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers to repress the rebellion. Gov. Alexander Randall of Wisconsin took ...

MARIETTA — The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will honor the lifetime achievements of Brig. Gen. Rufus R. and Mary Gates Dawes with an historical marker dedication ceremony at 10:30 a.m.

In Chicago one afternoon last week some 5,000 schoolchildren, egged on by their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city’s lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy ...

Of all businesses the most uncertain is show business. And of show businesses the most uncertain are fairs. And of fair businesses the most uncertain are world fairs which require huge investments, ...