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Virginia Gardner, a star Tribune reporter whose Communist sympathies didn’t fly with Col. McCormick
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoOn May 31, 1937, Virginia Gardner, realized that while some journalists work for a paycheck, others...
Ladies Day was once a regular promotion at Chicago’s ballparks
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoIn 1919, three years after National League officials stepped in to stop the Chicago Cubs’ plans for...
2 men to swim across Lake Michigan, an arduous adventure few have accomplished
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoTwo endurance swimmers — Bryan Huffman and Jim Dreyer — are separately planning to freestyle across...
Iconic Utah Jazz fan Dr. Richard Anderson dies at age 78
Deseret News via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoDr. Richard Anderson is pictured at a Utah Jazz-Chicago Bulls NBA Finals game on June 3, 1999....
Veterans column: Cook feted for defending President Garfield's honor
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBesides the money and gold watch from the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper, Captain Charles Cook...
WGN-TV went on the air 75 years ago, and for decades its biggest star was a clown
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAbout the time WGN-TV went on the air 75 years ago, Larry Harmon was starting to make appearances as the clown that later helped make the station a lunchtime and then an early morning destination ...
Commentary: Would Siskel and Ebert give thumbs up to this new book about them?
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 months agoI do not know Matt Singer, the author of “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies...
University of Puget Sound remembers past president as inspirational leader, storyteller
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 1 year agoRonald Thomas is being remembered at the University of Puget Sound as an inspirational leader and...
Jeffrey Dahmer's neighbor repeatedly called the police on him. She was ignored
The Today Show via AOL· 2 years agoWho was Glenda Cleveland and where is she now? Here's the story of Jeffrey Dahmer's neighbor, the...
A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBuried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a...