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President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 2, 1962, speaking about the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy was a Chicago newspaper reporter for three months in 1945.

10 things you might not know about Chicago newspapers

May 11, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley once declared, "A newspaper is the lowest thing there is." But this city's newspapers have seen plenty of high points too. As Tribune Publishing is...

Barack Obama stands with his wife, Michelle Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia, on Nov. 4, 2008, after winning the presidential election.

10 things you might not know about predictions

May 11, 2019 at 3:24 a.m.

A year ago, who would have predicted Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee? Certainly not Harry Enten, who wrote for the FiveThirtyEight website that "Trump has a better...

American comedian and talk show host Steve Allen (1921 - 2000) sitting at a desk speaking during an episode of 'The Tonight Show' in 1954. An advertisement for Knickerbocker beer is on his desk.

More semisecret Chicagoans, including a Fox News superstar

May 11, 2019 at 3:21 a.m.

Tribune readers are the smartest. A week ago, we presented a list of "semisecret Chicagoans" — people not normally associated with our city who have lived here at some point....

Maria Shriver waves to supporters of her husband, California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a campaign stop Oct. 6, 2003, in Huntington Beach, Calif. Shriver was born in Chicago and left soon after.

Semisecret Chicagoans: You hardly knew they were here

August 21, 2019 at 6:23 p.m.

When Wilmette police announced Monday that singer Sinead O'Connor was missing, it caused a strange kind of shock: Hardly anyone knew she was living in the north suburb in the...

The albino gray squirrels of Olney, Ill., get some unusal legal protections.

10 things you might not know about the Illinois legislature

May 11, 2019 at 3:18 a.m.

The Illinois General Assembly has combined with Gov. Bruce Rauner on an amazing run of ineffectuality: more than 10 months without a budget. As lawmakers meet in Springfield, this special...

Who said it — Trump, Clinton or Zoolander?

June 25, 2019 at 5:01 a.m.

Sources: Twitter, New York Daily News, Boston Globe, imdb.com

The iconic image of revolutionary Che Guevara, shown in a mural in Havana in 2014, was captured by photographer Alberto Korda in March 1960, though it wasn't printed at the time. The image later was widely circulated as a poster by Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who was given the photo by Korda.

10 things you might not know about Cuba

May 11, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

On Sunday, Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Obama has eased travel restrictions, and now U.S. airlines are negotiating...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference Saturday, March 5, 2016, in West Palm Beach, Fla.

50 things declared a disaster by Donald Trump

August 19, 2019 at 12:22 a.m.

One of the president's duties is to declare official disaster areas, but presidential hopeful Donald Trump has designated plenty of unofficial ones. According to Trump's tweets as well as debate...

A century ago today, an anarchist tried to kill Chicago’s archbishop with soup

June 11, 2018 at 7:00 a.m.

It was almost the crime of the century. But now that a century has passed, the banquet soup poisoning of 1916 has virtually disappeared from Chicago's memory. On Feb. 10...

Astronaut Gene Cernan spoke the last words on the moon in 1972. His account of what they were differs from NASA's.

10 things you might not know about farewells

May 11, 2019 at 2:48 a.m.

John Boehner recently bade a tearful goodbye as U.S. House speaker, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal dropped out of the Republican presidential race and Stephen Harper left as Canada's prime minister...

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