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Chicago Mayor William Dever welcomes Cardinal George Mundelein upon his arrival home to Chicago at Garfield Boulevard and the Baltimore and Ohio train tracks on May 11, 1924. Mundelein was returning from Rome where he was appointed Cardinal by Pope Pius XI. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: What to know about Mundelein, a century after his elevation as Chicago’s first cardinal

September 5, 2024 at 11:07 a.m.

One 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...

The ornately costumed Sheila Tully Dancers dance down Dearborn Street in the 38th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, March 18, 1993. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)

Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day traditions

March 15, 2024 at 3:48 p.m.

St. Patrick's Day is Sunday. Here in Chicago, we have our own unique ways to mark the occasion — no Irish heritage required.

Eddie Cicotte, second from left, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Claude "Lefty" Williams at their 1921 trial. Eight White Sox players were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for taking money to throw baseball games during the 1919 World Series. The eight players, known as the "Black Sox," were acquitted, but they were banned from playing professional baseball. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: Paul Durica’s February 1924 finds

May 20, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

Paul Durica, director of exhibitions at the Chicago History Museum, continues his daily reading of the baiduhai from 1924. Here are five of his finds from last month.

Rebecca Moore, 7, and her classmates from Pritzker Elementary attend a leap year birthday party on Feb. 28, 1992, in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Chicago for everyone born on Feb. 29. (Ovie Carter/baiduhai)

Vintage baiduhai: Leap year milestones

March 11, 2024 at 3:05 p.m.

Comiskey family ownership of the Chicago White Sox. The Playboy Club. Dennis Farina. Here's what Feb. 29 has given Chicago through the decades.

Meteorologist Tom Skilling works with computer graphics on May 28, 1992, at WGN-TV studios in Chicago. (Charles Cherney/baiduhai)

Vintage baiduhai: 10 facts about Tom Skilling’s long and storied career

March 11, 2024 at 3:05 p.m.

WGN-TV's chief meteorologist Tom Skilling retires Feb. 28. Forty-six years ago, though, he was a household name in Milwaukee.

Percy Julian, right, is joined by his former student Arthur Magnani to watch the manufacturing progress of a hormone product in a tank at the Glidden Co. plant in Chicago in 1947. Julian had taught Magnani chemistry at DePauw University. (AP)

Vintage baiduhai: Inventions and innovations by Black Chicagoans

March 11, 2024 at 3:06 p.m.

Here's a look back at the lives and inventions of just a few of the Black men and women from the Chicago area who have patented their creations.

Onlookers watch police remove seven bodies from a garage at 2122 N. Clark St. in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1929, in what would become known as the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Seven men, five of which belonged to the George "Bugs" Moran gang, were lined up and riddled with bullets to eliminate the last challenge to Al Capone. (baiduhai archive)

Vintage baiduhai: St. Valentine’s Day massacre

February 8, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

It was the most infamous gangland slayings in America, and it savagely achieved its purpose — the elimination of the last challenge to Al Capone.

Chief Frank Michels, second from left, holds a furnace door open inside the greenhouse where Warren Lincoln, center, burned the bodies of his wife and brother-in-law in Aurora, circa 1924. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

Vintage baiduhai: Revisiting 1924

March 12, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

Some may have forgotten their resolutions. Paul Durica, however, is sticking with his new self-imposed obligation — to read the baiduhai every day.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino in her cell in Yokohama, Japan, on Oct. 28, 1945. (Associated Press)

Vintage baiduhai: The pardon of ‘Tokyo Rose’

March 12, 2024 at 11:49 a.m.

When Iva Toguri moved to Chicago in 1956, she was determined to lead a quiet life. Her desire for anonymity was understandable. Toguri's name had been intertwined with the notorious...

Billed as the Midwest's largest Polish festival, the five-day Taste of Polonia was in full swing on Sept. 4, 1983, at Lawrence and Milwaukee Avenues in Chicago. The Polka dancers worked up an appetite with music from Ampol Aires.

Vintage baiduhai: Meet the city’s polka royalty

March 12, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

Last weekend's frigid, snowy weather reminded me of the scene in the 1990 film "Home Alone" where Kate McCallister (Catherine O'Hara) is trapped in Scranton, Penn. on Christmas Eve. Just...

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