Charles J. Johnson – Page 8

The ayatollah died, Tiananmen Square erupted in violence and Luis Gutierrez’s star rose: Flashback to June 4, 1989

June 23, 2019 at 11:30 p.m.

Iran, China, taxes and a health crisis — it could almost be a front page from 2019, but this action-packed news day was captured on the Tribune’s June 4, 1989,...

Chicago police investigate a shooting on West Ida B. Wells Drive and South Clark Street in Chicago on April 26, 2019.

Concealed carry holder tells cops he killed man who tried to steal his BMW in Loop after crash

May 23, 2019 at 2:01 a.m.

A man with a concealed carry permit told police he shot and killed another man who ran into the back of his BMW in the Loop and then demanded the...

Automovilista dice que mató al que intentó robarle su BMW en el centro de Chicago

April 26, 2019 at 8:58 a.m.

Las autoridades dijeron que un hombre con permiso de transporte oculto de armas, le dijo a la Policía que le disparó y mató a un hombre que golpeó la parte...

The homecoming of the 33rd Division as the soldiers march down Michigan Avenue in the spring of 1919.

100 years ago: Tribune’s front page from day WWI ended describes a joyful city, a dark future

November 8, 2020 at 5:48 p.m.

It was said to be the “war to end all wars.” It wasn’t. Sadly and ironically, World War I sowed the seeds of a more deadly conflict fought over the...

A finished and sliced timpano, also known as timballo.

Layered with love: Timpano brings an entire family together to work in one pot

March 12, 2024 at 12:14 p.m.

My father, a former engineer, looks at the tape measure, scowls and keeps rolling the dough. My mother starts picking at it, which draws more scowling. There's a tension in...

Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson's Cafe de Champion in September 1912.

The short, sad story of Cafe de Champion — Jack Johnson’s mixed-race nightclub on Chicago’s South Side

August 22, 2019 at 4:00 a.m.

The monogrammed spittoons were said to be solid silver. Fifteen thousand dollars' worth of oil paintings of the owner and his family hung on the walls, and mosaic inlaid tile...

President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017.

Take 5 minutes, read this and you’ll understand the whole Trump-Russia controversy

August 22, 2019 at 2:49 a.m.

Don’t feel bad if you’re mystified by what’s going on with the Trump-Russia investigations. There’s a blizzard of misinformation out there. But if you read this, which will be updated...

The Daily Show Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library exhibit at Union Station in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2017. The installation, a satiric play on presidential libraries, skewered Trump's Twitter habit.

The year in Trump tweets

June 7, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

It should be stated before we begin that President Donald Trump's Twitter account is, in a way, politically noncontroversial: Both liberals and conservatives dislike it. Polls from throughout 2017 consistently...

How heroin takes lives: The story of one Chicago musician

June 9, 2019 at 1:20 p.m.

I knew he’d finally hit the vein when the blood back-filled the syringe. He fired the heroin, pulled out the rig and knocked the belt off his bicep, leaving a...

Gen. John J. Pershing appears in uniform at WWI Armistice Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery in 1942.

Trump’s discredited pig’s blood tale may have roots in Tribune story from 1927

May 12, 2019 at 1:11 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to wait for all the facts before making public pronouncements on important matters.But just a few hours after a terror attack in Barcelona,...

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