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Vintage Chicago Tribune: Paul Durica’s April 1924 finds
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoBallots, bullets and a birth certificate made headlines in Chicago one hundred years ago. That’s...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Cicada invasion
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoIt’s about to get loud. Three species of periodical cicadas, known as Brood XIII, are expected to emerge this month from their underground habitats. The nymphs, which began as tiny eggs laid ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: The paper’s role in the demise of Richard Nixon’s presidency after...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoIn the early 1970s, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the connection between an attempted burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and President ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Exploring ‘Chicago Mysteries’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoThe Chicago Tribune has been reporting on the known and unknown since 1847. Which might explain why...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: ‘Prettiest woman ever accused of murder in Chicago’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoThe world came to Chicago in 1893 for a grand fair known as the World’s Columbian Exposition. A Chicago reporter gave the world a sinister tale of sex, murder, celebrity — and all that jazz ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Solar eclipses and how Chicagoans viewed them
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoChicago is usually the perfect place for sightseeing — but to observe April 8’s total solar eclipse...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Hippity, hoppity Easter traditions
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoSpring has sprung, the daffodils are in bloom. This means the Easter bunny will be hopping along...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: What to know about Mundelein, a century after his elevation as Chicago’s...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoOne hundred years ago, Chicago Catholics were given a gift from Pope Pius XI — the city’s first cardinal. Archbishop George W. Mundelein, who arrived in Chicago nine years earlier as the church ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: The city’s St. Patrick’s Day traditions
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 4 months agoSt. Patrick’s Day is Sunday, which means it’s time to eat corned beef with cabbage and sip a green...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Leap year milestones
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News UK· 4 months agoappears on the calendar once every four years — an aid to anyone who has ever wished for just a little bit more time. But why does it happen? Freshly retired WGN-TV chief meteorologist Tom Skilling ...
