Midwest

Lincoln Mall opened in 1973 at the corner of U.S. Route 30 and Cicero Avenue in Matteson, Illinois. For the next 42 years shoppers to roamed its two levels, four anchor stores, and 250,000 square feet of retail space. In 2015, the inside of...

The Cincinnati Silverbacks were a professional indoor soccer club that competed in the National Professional Soccer League from 1995 to 1998. The team originated in Dayton as the Dayton Dynamo in 1987. They played their first two seasons in Cincinnati at the old Cincinnati...

Chester Park was located at the northwest corner of Spring Grove and Mitchell Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. It opened in 1875, its most famous ride was the Tickler until the park closed in 1932.

Long before people were trying to make America great again, Earl Pitts was imploring the nation to "wake up!" One of the most popular characters ever created by radio legend nationally syndicated Gary Burbank, Earl's commentaries are still heard on radio stations nationwide. Follow...

Camp Washington??Chili is world famous and has been featured on The Travel Channel's Man v. Food Nation, CBS News, HGTV, and more. Founded in 1940 by Steve Andon and Fred Zannbus, it truly is an area favorite.

The Indiana Twisters were a professional indoor soccer team that played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) in 1996 and 1997. The team featured the first player owner in modern sports history when co-owner Rodney Goins suited up for the team. The franchise...

The Detroit Printing Co-Op was founded by Freddy Perlman, a prolific and widely respected political writer and thinker. Perlman and his wife Lorraine printed all the books published by their press, Black & Red, at the co-op from 1970-1980. Other groups made use of...

You don't have to be from Cincinnati to love WKRP in Cincinnati. Based on Atlanta radio station WQXI, Cincinnati was chosen as the home of the fictitious station at random, as producers sought a more Midwestern location. "Cincinnati" also flowed well with the made-up...

Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

The Minnesota Norseman were members of the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League??from 1977-1980. In their first season they were known as the Goofy's. A new owner changed the name to Norsemen for the 1978 season. Their home field was Midway Stadium in St. Paul.

Known as simply The Longhorn to loyal patrons and music fans, Jay's Longhorn was one of the most important rock clubs in America in the 1970s and 1980s. Many national and international acts played their early in their careers as did many well known...

The Chicago Ravens were founding members of the??International Women???s Professional Softball Association??(WPS) in 1976.??The team played at the Windy City Softball Complex, a facility with temporary seating for 4,000 fans in suburban Bridgeview, Illinois.??

The Stars were a Negro league baseball team that called Detroit home from 1919 to 1931. Starting as an independent team, they played in the Negro National League from 1920 to 1931. They played their home games at Mack Park. It was located at...

The Blues were Kansas City's AAA minor league baseball team from 1902 to 1954. They played in the American Association and were charter members of that circuit. In 1954, when the A's moved to town from Philadelphia, the Blues moved to Denver and became...

Most Queen City hockey fans know of the Mohawks, Swords, Stingers, and Might Ducks.?? However, another hockey team played in Cincinnati, albeit for just one season. IN 1963, the Indianapolis Capitols of the Central Professional Hockey League relocated to The Cincinnati Gardens after their...

Municipal Stadium in Kansas City opened in 1923 as??Muehlebach Field. In 1937 it became??Ruppert Stadium, before changing its name again in 1943 to Blues stadium in honor of the AAA Blues that played there. However, another, better known team played there starting in 1937:...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

The Cavs went from 6 and 11 in November of 1975 to making their first ever play-off appearance in April of 1976. They miraculously beat the Washington Bullets 4 games to 3, capturing Game 7 at home in the Richfield Coliseum.

In 1946, Ohio football legend Paul Brown was named head coach of brand new football team, one that would come to bear his name. After for years in the upstart All-America Football Conference, which they dominated, Cleveland moved to the established league and won...

Enchanted Voyage was the most expensive ride built for Kings Island when the park opened in 1972. Shaped like a giant television, it took riders??through several rooms featuring animatronic versions of new and old Hanna-Barbera characters. In 1984, it was totally redesigned and became...