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Vintage Chicago Tribune: 10 biggest bummers in 100 years of city history
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoChicagoans are familiar with disappointment. “There’s always next year,” was the motto for...
Kent Blues Fest returns to downtown Kent venues on Saturday
Record-Courier via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMusic fans from all over Northeast Ohio will be singing, dancing and more as the 13th annual Kent...
Route 66: Then and Now
Cheapism via AOL· 2 months agoFrankvandenBergh/istockphoto Get Your Kicks Route 66 had had a major impact on American history in the 20th century. Long before the interstate highways...
The Tabloid That Launched America's Obsession With True Crime
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - On a pleasant summer evening in 1918, in the undulating Champagne region of France, Joseph...
Behind the movement that brought homosexuality — and psychiatry's power — to a vote 50 years ago
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFifty years ago, the nation’s psychiatrists effectively put gay people’s mental health — and their...
Forgotten History: Black novelist was the ‘hidden figure’ behind a Humphrey Bogart film
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWillard Motley, a talented Black writer from Chicago, has been largely ignored by scholars of 20th...
What you need to know about Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of August Wilson's 'Seven...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn March 7, Milwaukee Repertory Theater begins performing August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," a play...
Everything You Want to Know About the 'Warm and Menacing' House in the Original 'Home Alone'
Parade via AOL· 6 months agoHome Alone House For movie fans, the brick suburban residence featured in the 1990 movie Home Alone...
How Detroit techno is preserving the city’s beating heart in the face of gentrification
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoDetroit, the birthplace of techno, is facing the pressures of gentrification. Willie Orlando Ford,...
Oscar Lawton Wilkerson, Chicago Heights native and area’s last surviving Tuskegee Airman, dies
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOscar Lawton Wilkerson Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first Black aviation combat unit, died the day before his 97th birthday. Wilkerson, who was born in Chicago Heights ...