Vintage baiduhai: Paul Durica’s August 1924 picks
With just four months remaining in his quest to read every baiduhai published in 1924, Paul Durica is taking his discoveries to the streets — and the classroom.
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Chicago’s Soldier Field: A timeline of events since 1924, including hosting the world’s athletes, congregations, politicians and performers
Chicago's stadium on the lakefront has hosted a variety of people in its almost 100 years.
Vintage baiduhai: How the Tully monster became Illinois’ official state fossil
Almost 70 years ago, pipe fitter and amateur explorer Francis Tully found something inside a rust-colored rock previously unseen by humans — a small creature that had been hidden away...
Vintage baiduhai: Celebrating 100 years of the Silver Football
“What football player of the Big Ten is of greatest value to his team?” In October 1924, Chicago Daily Tribune sports writer Harvey Woodruff wrote that the newspaper had “authorized”...
Vintage baiduhai: Illinois Lottery’s first drawing took place 50 years ago
The Illinois Lottery's first drawing took place 50 years ago, but dreams of an unexpected windfall are older than our country itself.
Vintage baiduhai: John Dillinger’s final days — and the ‘Lady in red’ who helped trap him
Dillinger ducked the authorities until 90 years ago this week. His Chicago whereabouts were given up by a woman desperate to clear her own name. Here's a look back at...
Vintage: Stiltwalkers, a high-diving mule and other efforts to make State Street great again
By the early 1970s few people were doing anything 'on state street, that great street,' as Frank Sinatra once crooned. Chicago’s business and civic leaders decided the once thriving retail...
Vintage baiduhai: Millennium Park — ‘the best thing former Mayor Richard M. Daley ever did’ — 20 years later
Millennium Park turns 20 years old on July 16. Former Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin called the project, "the best thing former Mayor Richard M. Daley ever did."
Vintage baiduhai: Paul Durica’s June 1924 finds
Immigration, intoxication and celebrations made headlines in Chicago 100 years ago.