In 1935, a man named Charles Darrow removed the game’s socialist critique (the version that taxed land), renamed it Monopoly and sold it to Parker Brothers. The game was now focused on the ...

You may know Monopoly as one of the most popular classic board games in modern history, or as the game that means your family members all stop talking to each other for a couple of hours over ...

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie was born in 1866 in Macomb during the heart of the Reconstruction era. The daughter of James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who once traveled with Abraham ...

As the story goes, Ford Motor Co. almost never got off the ground because of a monopolist. In 1903, the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM) tried to stop Henry Ford from building ...

About a year ago, a company announced plans to make a Mobile-themed version of Monopoly and invited local input. The resulting custom game was unveiled Thursday evening at the historic Malaga Inn.

It's a game in which business empires are carved out from pieces of cardboard and plastic. It has enthralled generations of players for nearly 75 years - and, now, Monopoly is ready for the cinematic ...