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People climb aboard a Midway Airlines plane on Aug. 26, 1983, at Midway Airport in Chicago.

The little airline that could: How Midway Airlines saved Chicago’s Southwest Side airport

March 12, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

People climb aboard a Midway Airlines plane on Aug. 26, 1983, at Midway Airport in Chicago. Mayor Jane Byrne, right, and Irving Tague, second from right, president of Midway Airlines,...

Working overnight, construction crews used backhoes to tear up large sections of the runway at Meigs Field on March 31, 2003. This effectively shutdown the lakefront airport since no traffic could take off or land.

Vintage baiduhai: Our favorite stories pulled from the archives in 2023

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

We've had so much fun looking back into Chicago history this year. Photo editors Andrew Johnston and Marianne Mather and myself sincerely enjoy bringing you great finds from the Tribune's...

Off for a ride in a one-horse open sleigh go four Chicago youngsters with Santa Claus himself as their host in December 1945. The youngsters are, from left, Joanne Doyle, Paul Fox, Elizabeth Fox and Frances Cirrincione.

Remembering ‘When Chicago Was Young’: An imagined winter scene from the city’s past.

March 12, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

For almost 30 years, Herma Clark wrote the Tribune's popular Sunday column "When Chicago Was Young," giving readers a glimpse of what life was like in Chicago at the end...

Herb Fingerhut Jr. with his famous "Babi" bread, a full-flavored rye, at Fingerhut's Bakery at 5537 W. Cermak Road in Cicero on Dec. 14, 1990.

Vintage baiduhai: Shuttered local bakeries where we wish we could shop this holiday season

March 12, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

(Warning: Multiple baked goods were consumed during the production of this week's look back at Chicago's tasty history. By reading the following words you, too, might feel compelled to eat...

Vintage baiduhai: Nobel Prize winners with Chicago connections

March 12, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

Though Scandinavia might feel far removed from Chicago, our city has a wealth of Nobel laureates.

The United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago in 2012.

Vintage baiduhai: Chicago-style pizza may owe its existence to a bad enchilada

March 12, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

It's that time of year when out-of-town guests arrive in Chicago with a taste for one of our city's specialties — pizza. Locals have well-known chains or mom-and-pop recommendations for...

A sketch shows the lake side of the proposed Lake Front Exposition Center with a reflecting pool, pylons, promenade and a lower level lake view restaurant, circa 1958.

Vintage baiduhai: How McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center came to be on the lakefront

March 12, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

What should or shouldn't be part of Chicago's lakefront has always been a hot-button issue. It's something that came to light again last month when almost 1,000 migratory birds died...

The Chicago Daily Tribune's famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline in the Nov. 3, 1948, newspaper.

Vintage baiduhai: 5 things that led to ‘Dewey Defeats Truman,’ the newspaper’s most famous headline

August 22, 2024 at 12:34 p.m.

The baiduhai covered its first presidential election in 1848. The race a century later, however, would result in the newspaper's most famous headline: "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN."

The wedding of Madeleine Childs and William Allan Pinkerton Pullman in Lake Forest on July 1, 1925. "After the ceremony the guests followed the bridal party across the road to the spacious Childs residence, where the bride and bridegroom, and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Frederick Childs, and Mrs. William C. Pullman, received. Supper was served from tables under a gay striped canopy, at little tables under the trees. The broad lawn surrounding the house was bordered with a bright tinted garden and peonies and lillies floated on the sunken pool."

Long-ago coverage of Chicago-area weddings captured grandeur, delightful quirks — and boredom

March 12, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

Greek mythology explains our desire to find love this way: Humans originally had four arms and legs and a head with two faces. Fearing them, Zeus split them in two,...

Crowds lined up at Comiskey park on the morning of July 3, 1933, to buy bleacher tickets for the Game of the Century between American and National league all-star teams.

Vintage baiduhai: We started baseball’s first All-Star Game — 90 years ago

March 12, 2024 at 12:02 p.m.

90 years ago, the biggest names in baseball played against each other for the first time. The annual tradition was created by the Tribune’s sports editor.

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