Born in 1949 in Hanford Village, an African American neighborhood on the Near East Side, Shirley Mixon had a childhood right out of a book about 1950s suburbia. No one worried about leaving doors ...

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In the years following World War II, with a growing economy and the vast expansion of automobile ownership, there was broad support for investment in highways that would knit the country together.

Gwen Carter-Adamson doesn’t remember everything from 1965. She was 13 years old and finishing eighth grade at Our Lady of Consolation off of Statesville Road. But there are two memories she vividly ...

On Sept. 12, 1964, hundreds crowded across freshly-painted highway stripes to watch the dedication of a new $12.5 million, 2.6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 designed to ease traffic congestion on what ...