Colleges, High Schools Use "Hamilton" To Enhance Teaching
It's one of the ways colleges and high schools are using the hugely popular musical to teach students about history, art, drama, culture, and even politics.
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It's one of the ways colleges and high schools are using the hugely popular musical to teach students about history, art, drama, culture, and even politics.
Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move for eight years, showed up to a Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning.
The trailer for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" debuted in dramatic fashion during Monday Night Football halftime. Fireworks flashed and Stormtroopers marched onto Chicago's Soldier Field as the preview played onscreen.
Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago.
A Pokemon Go festival at Chicago's Grant Part to celebrate the virtual game's one-year anniversary went awry.
I was a recent high school graduate headed to Baylor University in Waco when this song hit the American Top 40 charts.
Hundreds of counter-protesters marched through downtown Seattle, banging drums, cymbals and cowbells behind a large sign saying "Seattle stands with our Muslim neighbors."
United Airlines executives said that it is too soon to know if last week's dragging of a man off of a plane is hurting ticket sales. The CEO added that no one will be fired over the incident.
United Airlines is changing a company policy and will no longer allow crew members to displace customers already onboard an airplane.
A lawyer for a man dragged off a United Express flight says he suffered a concussion and broken nose and lost two front teeth.
The CEO of United Airlines' parent company is supporting the way his employees handled an incident with a passenger who did not want to go after being asked to leave a plane on Sunday night at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
President Donald Trump is offering to "send in the Feds" if Chicago can't reduce its homicide figures.
Now an elder statesman, President Obama is returning to Chicago, where he launched his unlikely political career, to tell Americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next leader.
One of the most violent years in Chicago history ended Sunday with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades in the city and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
Friday's celebration starts about 10 a.m. when the team leaves Wrigley Field. The parade is scheduled to start at 11 a.m., traveling along Michigan Avenue and then along Columbus Drive.
At exactly 11:47 p.m. local time Wednesday, the Cubs won the World Series title that had eluded them for 108 years.
Engine pieces from an American Airlines plane that caught fire Friday on a runway at Chicago's O'Hare airport were found thousands of feet away, a federal investigator said.
Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber was followed by fans with cameras and cell phones. A couple of pitchers from the Indians played hacky sack in the outfield. So, no, nothing like the last World Series at Wrigley Field.
It turns out The Field Museum's Tyrannosaurus, Sue, didn't use those tiny arms very much. At least that's the initial conclusion from a detailed look at the fossil's right forelimb.
The Allen Police Department issued a warning on Friday night after investigators received intelligence that a group of men from Illinois could be traveling to DFW over the next few days to commit financial crimes.
Rainbow flags were held high along with portraits of the dead as thousands of people marched Sunday in gay pride parades tempered by this month's massacre at a Florida gay nightclub.
A concert musician who was not allowed to board a flight with her violin hopes that the incident will raise awareness of regulations that permit violins and other small instruments as carry-on luggage.
A seventh grade teacher from the Rockwall Independent School District was placed on "administrative leave" Thursday after conducting a lesson to provoke discussion about society's use of the N-word.
Plano's own Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs pitched his second no-hitter in a span of 11 regular-season starts, shutting down the Cincinnati Reds in a 16-0 rout Thursday night
The NFL said Tuesday that 25 prospects are scheduled to attend the draft in Chicago at the end of the month.
