James Janega

Until architect and engineer William Le Baron Jenney's novel solution to reduce construction materials, cities could only get as big as they had room to spread out. Perhaps no innovation...

Chances are good there's a cellular phone or smart phone in your pocket. You may be reading this item on a smart phone. If so, you have at your fingertips...

In building what he hopes is the perfect parking app, Chicago entrepreneur Eyal Amir has pivoted four times, dipped into personal savings, brought on a half-dozen partners (most of them...

The first successful open-heart surgery took place on Chicago's South Side on July 9, 1893. The patient was James Cornish, a young man with a knife wound to the chest...

Chicago, incorporated in 1833 with a population of 350, began innovating as soon as it was born. Poised on the prairie's stoop as the West was opening, Chicago created a...

Henry Gerber, immigrant and World War I Army enlistee, came to Chicago to live near other German-speaking immigrants. After seeing how people with different sexual orientations were treated here, he...

To give high-minded attention to a global lack of access to education in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — British Airways last summer packed 100 powerhouse innovators onto...

Facing a pending injunction on further work, but having come too far to stop now, a group of dignitaries stood on the side of a controversial canal bisecting the city...

If you listened to it on the radio, said many who did, Nixon won. If you watched it on CBS television, as many more seemed to do, Kennedy won. Nixon...