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Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo: More than 150 years of animal stories

May 22, 2026 at 8:17 p.m.

On Aug. 26, 1868, two pairs of swans arrived in Lincoln Park, a gift from New York City's Central Park. As the book "The Ark in the Park: The Story...

Delegates on the Democratic National Convention floor chant "Stop the war" after a speech by Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy's press secretary, on Aug. 28, 1968. Salinger urged adoption of the dove plank on the Vietnam War.

1968 DNC: The riots and politics that took over Chicago

April 23, 2024 at 5:13 p.m.

Delegates on the Democratic National Convention floor chant "Stop the war" after a speech by Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy's press secretary, on Aug. 28, 1968. Salinger urged adoption...

At left: South LaSalle Street, photographed from the fourth floor of the Chicago Board of Trade at 5:05 p.m. on June 19, 1950, by Tribune photographer Al Phillips. At right: South LaSalle, photographed from the fourth floor of the Board of Trade at 5:05 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2018.

Then and Now: A timeless view of LaSalle Street

May 31, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

Sometimes things barely change at all. When we started the "Then and Now" photo project several years ago, it was a way to showcase the visual changes in the landscapes...

At the Des Plaines police station, John Wayne Gacy covers his face with his manacled hands as he emerged after an all-night questioning session on Dec. 22, 1978.

The John Wayne Gacy murders

November 21, 2022 at 6:09 p.m.

John Wayne Gacy is arrested on Dec. 21, 1978, at the Des Plaines Police Department. A body is recovered from John Wayne Gacy's house in 1979 and transferred to a...

The 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, passed in 1920, and in August of that year, a Chicago suffrage group paraded through Chicago urging women to register to vote in their first election. League of Women Voters members are Mrs. J.N. McGraw, from left, Mrs. G.N. Payson, Mrs. Charles S. Eaton, Mrs. E.F. Bemis, Mrs. A.N. Schweizer, Mrs. Ida Strawn Randall, trumpeter Helen Hamilton and Billie Frees.

Women get the vote

March 23, 2022 at 10:41 a.m.

Antoinette Funk, Grace Wilbur Trout and Mary Dobyns talk with Dr. H.S. Taylor, circa 1913. Trout was the president of the Illinois Woman's Suffrage Association. On Feb. 9, 1913, a...

Mayor William Hale Thompson in an undated photo.

Big Bill Thompson: Chicago’s most notorious mayor

May 24, 2022 at 8:05 p.m.

Mayor William Hale Thompson in an undated photo. Mayor William Hale Thompson in an undated photo. Mayor William Hale Thompson speaks to a large crowd, circa 1922. The sign on...

Contract Buyers League members leave furnishings at the Chicago Civic Center on March 30, 1970. The items were removed from homes during evictions with the support of police. The Contract Buyers League fought back against redlining and restrictive racial covenants for housing that ruled Chicago.

Housing discrimination and the Contract Buyers League

March 21, 2022 at 5:53 p.m.

Contract Buyers League members leave furnishings at the Chicago Civic Center on March 30, 1970. The items were earlier removed from homes during evictions with the support of police. Guarded...

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Rare glass-plate negatives, found in the Tribune's basement archive, capture the aftermath of one of Chicago's worst maritime disasters: the sinking of the SS Eastland in 1915. To view a digital graphic novel of the disaster, <a href="http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/news/local/eastland">click here</a>. In this photo, a victim is carried up the SS Eastland as the steamship lies on its side in the Chicago River after slowly rolling over and drowning 844 people July 24, 1915.

The Eastland disaster: Rare Tribune photos

May 24, 2022 at 9:26 p.m.

click here. In this photo, a victim is carried up the SS Eastland as the steamship lies on its side in the Chicago River after slowly rolling over and drowning...

baiduhai pioneering journalists Maurine Watkins, from left, Fanny Butcher, Genevieve Forbes Herrick and Sigrid Schultz.

Pioneering Tribune women in journalism

May 26, 2022 at 9:24 p.m.

With this content in mind, Watkins wrote the play "Chicago," which today is a $2 billion entertainment franchise featuring A-list celebrities, a hit, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and an Oscar-winning...

Then and now photos: Michigan Avenue and the Biograph Theater

August 18, 2019 at 6:34 p.m.

Over more than a century of newspaper photography, the Tribune has archived millions of images, chronicling not only people and events, but also Chicago's architecture and street scenes. Tribune photographer...

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