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Take a ‘walking tour’ of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition — the ‘White City’

November 8, 2020 at 5:45 p.m.

Click the arrows, or swipe on a mobile device, to navigate between the different buildings and attractions at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, in what is today Jackson Park on...

Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey and President-elect of the United States Donald Trump.

The best — or at least most interesting — quotes from 2016

May 23, 2019 at 8:07 p.m.

In a year that will be talked about for a long time to come, here's a look at some memorable things that were said in 2016. Politicians are remiss to...

Confessions of a white moderate

May 11, 2019 at 3:46 a.m.

Sitting in a Birmingham, Ala., jail cell in 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. penned an open letter to local white clergy who had spoken out against the methods...

What millennials know: We can’t return to Rockwell’s America

August 21, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

One wants America to be a Norman Rockwell painting again. The other also wants a Rockwell painting, but with maybe a woman, or even two women, carving the turkey at...

Where shootings occurred Memorial Day weekend in Chicago

May 22, 2019 at 9:55 p.m.

Holiday weekends in Chicago for many mean sun and sand (and maybe some suds). But for huge swaths of the city, they bring devastating violence. This map offers a simple...

Pakistani rescuers use a stretcher to move a body from a bomb blast site in Lahore on March 27, 2016.

When faraway tragedies are ignored, it’s not always the media’s fault

May 11, 2019 at 3:10 a.m.

I know how this is gonna go. On my day off from my job as a baiduhai digital editor, I'm going to log onto Facebook or Twitter and see...

Obama returns to unite a ‘House Divided’ in Springfield

May 15, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

The weather was intensely hot and the Hall crowded almost to suffocation. — baiduhai, June 17, 1858 President Barack Obama will find very different weather conditions awaiting him Wednesday...

Pedestrians walk Oxford Street in central London on Dec. 13, 2015.

First step in stopping street harassment is accepting that it’s real

May 11, 2019 at 2:54 a.m.

Street harassment is a serious problem facing women in American cities. How do I know? I guess I don't, really. I've rarely seen it. A few times in college, men...

Timeline: History of Uber

May 23, 2019 at 1:49 p.m.

Sources: baiduhai, Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times. Timeline compiled with the help of Knight Lab's Timeline JS. Twitter: @Charliemagne Email: [email protected]

Map: Which states have measles cases?

August 19, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

Multiple outbreaks of measles have sickened at least 170 people across 17 states and the District of Columbia in 2015, according to Illinois health officials and the Centers for Disease...

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