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Remembering the Chicago mariachi who serenaded Richard J. Daley and Nixon (and everyone else)
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCHICAGO — José Cruz Alba occupied the center oval of a very small Venn diagram: He rubbed shoulders...
Editorial: MLK’s Chicago setback looks more like a victory today
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWere the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement that he led outwitted by Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley? As King’s top aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, would later write, ...
A tragic fire and other tales highlight the start of a new season of WTTW’s ‘Chicago Stories’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMayor Richard J. Daley cried. We don’t see this but rather are told about it in the first of the...
From Chicago machine maestro to indicted alderman, Ed Burke’s corruption trial follows half-century...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoEd Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the...
High schoolers can fast-track into careers in cybersecurity through new partnership by CPS, Illinois...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn May, Armando Rodriguez will graduate from Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy. By August, he will be a...
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...
How the Iowa caucuses became the first major challenge of US presidential campaigns
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA political scientist traces the development of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and how the...
Michael Madigan relinquishing his remaining elected post as Democratic committeeman
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFormer House Speaker Mike Madigan, who is set to stand trial on federal racketeering charges next...
In Bridgeport, a play lot keeps memories of a fallen soldier alive
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Lt. Joseph T. McKeon Jr. Park consists of a few swings and such for kids and a bench for their parents. It might not catch a passerby’s eye except for a plaque at the corner of Wallace and ...
What to know about Ralph Metcalfe, the Olympic sprinter and Marquette grad who will soon have a...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Saturday, Milwaukee will rename North 34th Street in honor of a man who left his mark on the city...