For decades, the pitch for residents and companies alike to move to the Midwest has been simple: the affordability of homes, even in the region's largest metros. The pitch has...

Amid a data center boom, utilities, policymakers and residents are grappling with how to split the bill for growing the digital economy.

During Sears, Roebuck and Company's heyday, the iconic retailer dispatched more than 50 million catalogs every year. Each was a behemoth stretching hundreds of pages and promising virtually anything...

Tim Keck was short a few hundred dollars for his rent and tuition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. So he got creative. It was 1988. Keck, the son of a Chicago...

In the third installment of Midstory’s series “Battleground Breakdown,” we look at how Ohio’s newfound Republican lean and proximity to this year’s battlegrounds of Michigan and Pennsylvania affects the state’s politics and voter turnout.