Historic Preservation

Historian Patricia Cleary’s new book details the history of the more than two dozen mounds that once stood in St. Louis.

Belleville Historical Society is asking St. Clair County and the city of Belleville to halt a plan to demolish a vacant storefront on West Main Street that was built during the Civil War.

St. Louis preservationists are celebrating a plan by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation to purchase two historic Olive Street buildings that St. Louis University had planned to demolish.

Canning — once a necessity so families could have fruits and vegetables through the winter — has turned into a hobby. Here's how canning evolved from the home to factories and why people are returning to the practice.

The Washington Theater in Quincy was home to vaudeville acts and later a movie theater before it shuttered in the 1980s. Now, an effort is underway to restore the theater to its former glory.

With the country’s second-largest collection of unrepatriated remains, Illinois has lagged far behind the nation. A new law has the Osage Nation hopeful there will soon be progress.

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest — and one of the last remaining — Black incorporated towns in the country. It’s at risk of being lost.

Left beneath bridges and inside parking garages, Native American memorials in St. Louis draw advocates' ire.

The goal is to see what’s working well and apply it across similar districts that dot the St. Louis region.

The annual antique fair returns to Lafayette Park for the first time in three years this Saturday, along with the Lafayette Square garden tour.