Tina Akouris

Tina Akouris

Chicago Tribune

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Flashback: If a football squad wanted bragging rights in Chicago, the Prep Bowl was what mattered

There was a time when a football game at Soldier Field that drew as many as 120,000 people featured players too young to vote. It was a time when the...

Tina Akouris

Chicago Tribune

70 22.06.2022

Flashback: ‘These are no dilettantes out for a thrill’: The Ninety-Nines helped female pilots break the glass ceiling

Iconic pilot and feminist Amelia Earhart's message that women should get involved in flying was always loud and clear. The Ninety-Nines provided a...

Tina Akouris

Chicago Tribune

100 22.06.2022

Flashback: Secret experiments in a Cook County preserve aided atomic bomb efforts — and left nuclear waste behind

Secret experiments at a Cook County forest preserve played an important part in the Manhattan Project. But contamination plagued the site at Red Gate...

Tina Akouris

Chicago Tribune

400 22.06.2022

Flashback: In 1984, prep basketball phenom Ben Wilson’s star was rising. Then two bullets destroyed everything.

Simeon prep star Ben Wilson, who was ranked the No. 1 basketball player in the nation, left his campus to grab lunch a couple of days before...

Tina Akouris

Chicago Tribune

3000 22.06.2022
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