Atlantic Richfield and Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil) announce the discovery of an oil field beneath Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the largest oil and natural-gas discovery in North American history.

Joliet reports that a canal connecting Lake Michigan to the Mississippi at this point would control the entire known North American continent ... October 10th. The history of Chicago and the ...

Major market sell-offs typically occur about once every five to 10 years, according to a study, but they come at various ...