The area in the East Lakeview neighborhood is the largest Chicago gay neighborhood and the first officially-recognized gay village in the United States. The Boystown name was secured in the '90s thanks to a weekly column called “Boys Town,' which ran in the gay newspaper Outlines, according to a...

THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGNĭuring the 1930s, Americans had caught glimpses of Japanese armies in action and grew increasingly sympathetic towards war-torn China. Progressively, American forces drew closer to the strategically important targets of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In 1944, the United States, seized...

Since at least as far back as 2009, a seeming link between the United States government and the Illuminati circulated in the form of a rumor claiming typing “Illuminati” backwards into one’s web browser navigation bar would lead the user to the web site of another conspiracy theory boogeyman: the...

“I honestly believe the use of the atomic bomb saved lives in the long run. The 9,000-pound bomb fell down toward the city as the Enola Gay banked away, the crew hoping to escape with their lives.ĭespite decades of controversy over whether the United States should have used the atomic bomb -...