Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 24, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

1992: Tammy Zywicki was a 21-year-old college student traveling from her New Jersey home to her last year in college in Grinnell, Iowa. She had left Evanston, where she dropped off her brother at ...

A life ring was installed by the Chicago Park District at the end of the pier at Loyola Beach near Tobey Prinz Beach, Sept.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 19, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

The four largest homicide waves in Chicago history have occurred over the course of a century, separated by the emergence of new political leaders and new social movements. But through those years, ...

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history ...

Timuel Black, beloved Chicago historian, civil rights activist and University of Chicago alum, died Oct. 13 at his Hyde Park home. He was 102. Black, AM’54, is being remembered by the University ...