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Vintage Chicago Tribune: The 5 hottest days in city history
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIt’s hot, Chicago, but it’s been hotter. The first 100-degree day was recorded on July 16, 1887....
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Paul Durica’s April 1924 finds
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoBallots, bullets and a birth certificate made headlines in Chicago one hundred years ago. That’s...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: 10 key moments from the ‘Summer of Sammy’ Sosa and the race to 62 home runs
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Sports· 8 months agoOn this day in 1994, the Major League Baseball season was shut down due to a continuing players’...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Jimmy Buffett, our favorite tourist
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIf you’re a Jimmy Buffett fan, then you’ve probably read about all the places the singer-songwriter...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: How Illinois became the first state to recognize MLK Day
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWe remember Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. each January 15, which was the slain civil rights leader’s...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Chicago Bears owner Virginia McCaskey — who turns 100 today — in her own...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Virginia Halas McCaskey graduated from Philadelphia’s Drexel University in 1943, with a degree...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: St. Valentine’s Day massacre
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt was the most infamous of all gangland slayings in America, and it savagely achieved its purpose —...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Medinah Temple — from Shriners to circus, couches to casino — through the...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe copper-covered onion domes and colorful terra cotta on the exterior of Medinah Temple are eye-catching, Chicago, and enough to make you wonder what the heck goes on inside a building that ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Our favorite stories pulled from the archives this year
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s been an incredible year to look back, Chicago. Senior visual editor Marianne Mather and I launched this newsletter — our dream project — in February. Since then, we’ve brought you 52 editions ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: 100 years of mayoral inauguration speeches from William Dever through...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA mayor’s inauguration “didn’t amount to much” in the early days of the city, 86-year-old Chicago resident David “Uncle Dave” W. Clark told the Tribune in 1927. “There were no ladies, flowers ...