A Masonic emblem that Elgin officials had wanted to preserve crumbled as the terra cotta symbols were removed from a historic building, officials said Monday. In October the City Council reluctantly ...

Centuries before Jimmy Choo shoes and Louis Vuitton luggage, Freemasons were the fashionistas of their times, wearing bejeweled sashes and aprons adorned with esoteric symbols dating back to King ...

The Broad Street museum about Freemasons brings to light the fraternal organization that counts many presidents as members.

In every Masonic Lodge in the United States and possibly the world, hangs in the East a letter ‘G’. It signifies the Masonic recognition in a faith in God or an individual member’s own religious faith ...

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NILES — In November, the historic Masonic Temple at 22 W. Church St. was included on a list of city properties declared “insecure, unsafe, structurally defective and / or unfit for human habitation.” ...

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