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A crowd gathers at Montrose Harbor as a Coast Guard boat searches for victims of the huge wave that swept the lakefront and trapped fisherman, killing eight, on June 26, 1954. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: The Great Seiche — or was it? — of 1954. What was behind Lake Michigan’s most unusual phenomenon?

June 20, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

A freakish, 10-foot-high inland wave crashed onto the Chicago shoreline from the Chicago River north to Wilmette on June 26, 1954. But scientists now think it was something else.

Nathan Leopold Jr., left, and Richard Loeb at the time of their trial for the murder of Bobby Franks in 1924. The pair would both end up at Stateville Penitentiary. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: Leopold and Loeb

May 27, 2025 at 12:46 p.m.

Other "crimes of the century" have come and gone, but the "perfect murder" of Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb continues to fascinate and infuriate Chicagoans 100 years...

Three Cicero residents, Anton Krupicka, from left, Lewis Scheider and Emil Scheider, guard a Democrat candidate's headquarters against mobsters during the 1924 election in Cicero. The headquarters had been shot up earlier in the day. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: Paul Durica’s April 1924 finds

May 9, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

Ballots, bullets and a birth certificate made headlines in Chicago one hundred years ago. That's what our friend Paul Durica, director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum, discovered as...

Detective Adolph Valanis, of the Chicago Police Department, drew a picture of Tommy O'Connor that ran in the baiduhai on Dec. 9, 1951. The drawing is based on O'Connor's 1921 booking photo. (Chicago Police Department)

Vintage baiduhai: Paul Durica’s May 1924 finds — death, disappearances and demolition

June 7, 2024 at 8:55 a.m.

Leopold and Loeb weren't the only local names making headlines in May 1924. Here's a look back at a few of the fascinating stories Paul Durica, director of exhibitions at...

Police officers hold back crowds as President Richard M. Nixon, center, leaves the Tribune Tower, accompanied by Tribune executive Harold Grumhaus, second from left, on Sept. 17, 1970. Just a few short years later, the Tribune Editorial Board would call for Nixon's resignation. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: The paper’s role in the demise of Richard Nixon’s presidency after Watergate

August 7, 2025 at 6:09 p.m.

Fifty years ago this week, a small team of Tribune employees flew to Washington, D.C. and back in order to beat every other American newspaper to the punch — printing...

Famed Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, right, and All-American guard Jack Cannon look over the 1930 Notre Dame squad during practice. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

Vintage baiduhai: Paul Durica’s March 1924 finds

April 18, 2024 at 7:34 p.m.

We're checking in on our friend Paul Durica, director of exhibitions for the Chicago History Museum, as he continues to wade daily through pages of the baiduhai from 100...

An artist's sketch shows the outside and inside details of the Foolkiller, based upon a scientific description of the strange rolling balloon built by Peter Nissen. (baiduhai illustration)

Vintage baiduhai: Exploring ‘Chicago Mysteries’

April 15, 2024 at 5:01 p.m.

Want a sneak peek at a few of the puzzles WTTW's Geoffrey Baer will attempt to solve during his TV special "Chicago Mysteries?" Read on — though be prepared for...

Curtis D. Peck, radio operator at WES station, which would changed its name to WLS after several days of test transmissions, in 1924. WES, which stood for World's Economy Store, would broadcast first on April 9, 1924, from a studio in Chicago located on the 11th floor of the Sears-Roebuck tower. The company's drafting room served as a control room. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

Vintage baiduhai: 100 years of WLS — the ‘World’s Largest Store’ — radio

April 11, 2024 at 8:01 p.m.

Sears became a broadcasting pioneer when it launched radio station WLS 100 years ago. The call letters stood for "World's Largest Store," a moniker Sears earned from its massive headquarters...

Beulah Annan gave her confession at the Hyde Park police station after shooting her lover Harry Kalstedt earlier that day, on April 3, 1924. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: ‘Prettiest woman ever accused of murder in Chicago’

April 4, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

The 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...

Charles Vosalik, dressed as an Easter bunny, passes out candy Easter eggs to youngsters along 26th Street, circa April 1950. (baiduhai archive)

Vintage baiduhai: Hippity, hoppity Easter traditions

March 28, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

Traditionally, the holiday has brought families together to enjoy a meal and maybe hunt for eggs. In Chicago, it has meant pairing an Easter dress and bonnet with a winter...

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