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The Chicago Tribune marked the birth of a baseball league for Black players with a yawn and an occasional box score atop a list of semiprofessional...
As hundreds of volunteers combed the fields and hills of southwestern Wisconsin, a local farm girl was found buried face down in a shallow grave on a...
In the waning days of 1871, a Tribune staffer sat down in the paper’s makeshift office to write an editorial for Jan. 1. It’s a standard...
Reporters dubbed him the “midget bandit,” but Henry Fernekes drew upon a big brain when he decided to focus on bank robbing. He did his research,...
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a former client stood a few yards apart amid the ashes of a bungalow on a Wisconsin hillside. Neither Wright nor...
Texas Guinan had no reason to be concerned about her health when she left Chicago in 1933. The city’s medical authorities were slow to trace an...
Edith Rockefeller McCormick was certainly the most unconventional of Chicago’s grande dames, but she was also a visionary — even if she wasn’t...
Delegates to the first convention of the Playground Association of America gathered in the Art Institute’s Fullerton Hall to hear famed social...
As they do every four years, pundits and newscasters again are explaining why we choose a president in the peculiar way we do. By now, our customary...
It might seem odd that Jacob Kaufman, who lived in a Jewish neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, would have his car worked on in an alley garage in...
When union leader Steve Sumner sat down with a state’s attorney investigator in 1933, he looked perfect for a movie version of the story he was...
The unexpected death of Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell in the fall of 1970 left behind a political corruption mystery.
The unexpected death of Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell in the fall of 1970 left behind a political corruption mystery.
When Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell's body was found Oct. 11, 1970, in a Rochester, Minn., hotel room, political heavyweights tripped all...
The Lady Elgin didn’t pull away from a Chicago River dock until just before midnight on a late summer day 160 years ago. Passengers were reluctant...
On Election Day in 1876, the Republican Party chairman went to bed thinking the party’s presidential candidate had lost. In a preliminary vote...
If Chicago police weren’t wrestling with a sensational murder case, the abrupt way Chief Francis O’Neill hung up the phone and summoned the driver...
Its doors closed indefinitely, Chicago’s grand Palmer House Hilton is now smothered in debt and under foreclosure. The storied hotel faces an...
As the Democratic nominee for vice president stepped up to the podium at her party’s 1984 national convention, the chanting began: “Gerry! Gerry!...
Unlike her sainted namesake, the Joan of Arc of West Hammond wasn’t burned at the stake, though many a sticky-fingered politician and brothel keeper...
Seventy-five years ago, Col. Paul Tibbets flew the plane carrying the first weapon of mass destruction, an atomic bomb that would shortly bring World...
Marie Owens, the first police officer responsible for the safety of Chicago’s schoolchildren, didn’t have a gun, and her beat ended at the...
The brick three-flat at 6140 Rhodes Ave. is no different from any other in Chicago — except for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that guaranteed its...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is taking heat for not following the lead of other cities that removed their statues of Christopher Columbus in response...
Angered by the disrespect African Americans received at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, an entrepreneur and a journalist shared a...
It was 4:30 on a spring afternoon in 1920 when the father of Chicago’s crime syndicate arrived at the restaurant on South Wabash Avenue to which he...