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Landmarks: Cook County festival images resurface a century later

Images from the 1916 Cook County School Festival in Thornton, including one of the Dolton School band, showcase the towns' rural past.

Landmarks: Roosevelt's globe highlights revived Dixie Highway tour

In and Around Park Forest Week of February 19, 2024

Thornton Historical Society organizes trip to Starved Rock Lodge

Landmarks: 'Oldest standing brewery in Illinois' built around water bubbling from deep underground

Thornton Quarry, I-80's Grand Canyon, an economic bedrock with another 200 years of reserves left

"When you do a job for all intents and purposes people have died doing, you take it a little more seriously and value that person working next to you."

Thornton Historical Society to host Cleopatra re-enactor April 24

The secret behind saving a century of photos and stories

When the SouthtownStar was moving from its longtime home in Tinley Park, a photographer secretly recruited a group of historians to help save photographs and print clips that were destined to be thrown away.

Landmarks: Black Graves Matter effort focuses on burial grounds surrounding Thornton that offered respite from racism that persisted after death

A group of African American business leaders established Mount Glenwood cemetery south of Thornton in 1908 and a year later, Olivet Baptist Church created Mount Forest cemetery. In the 1920s, two more traditionally Black cemeteries opened in the Alsip area, Restvale and Burr Oak.