CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, edging out two sitting members of the U.S. House to advance to a November general election against ...

For those of us who keep a foot firmly in the past, how fortunate to find John Ballantyne and Gus Noble, a couple of guys from Scotland, who are in the buoyant business of traveling back more than 50 ...

The tales of Boccaccio’s Decameron in a modern guise, reinterpreted through new communication media such as podcasts. Breathing new life into the great classic of Italian literature was the initiative ...

Depicts many funny and satirical tales from Giovanni Boccaccio. Around 200 actors, among them almost all the greatest of the time, with Stane Sever at the helm. He played a mischievous writer who, in ...

A half-century ago, about an hour before sunrise, the earth under the San Fernando Valley shuddered for a full12 seconds. Freeway interchanges collapsed. Buildings shifted off their foundations. Water ...

After adapting "Gospel according to Saint-Matthews" as no one had done before (and after ) him ,in a drastically anti-Hollywood style ("greatest story ever told" and the Italian's opus are worlds ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for The Decameron finale. In Netflix's The Decameron, nobles and servants seek refuge from the bubonic plague at Villa Santa, leading to chaos and selfish ...

SALEM, Ill. — There's a big mystery in Salem, IL, as city leaders and researchers work to uncover the identity of the unidentified person killed in the 1971 Tonti train derailment. On June 10th, 1971, ...

When the Illinois Crime Commission released their list of “drug-oriented rock records” in 1971, they weren’t technically banning radio stations in the state from playing the songs. Just before the ICC ...

As a mysterious illness ravages crowded cities, the wealthiest citizens escape to the countryside to wait out the disease in safety. Sound familiar? Sure, it happened in 2020 with the Covid-19 ...