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Chicago police Officer Renault Robinson on duty in the alley behind police headquarters at 11th and State streets on May 9, 1973. (Gerald West/baiduhai)

As Black leaders pushed for ‘community control of police’ 50 years ago, one activist cop was assigned to patrol an alley

March 12, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.

Spring of 1973 was a busy season for Renault Robinson, who spoke at a conference on "Community Control of Police" and, not incidentally, walked a beat in the alley behind...

Gen. Italo Balbo lands his seaplane, one of a squadron of 24 planes, on a flight from Italy to Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair on July 15, 1933.

Chicago cheered as Italo Balbo led a squadron of 24 Italian aircraft that splashed down in Lake Michigan 90 years ago

March 12, 2024 at 12:01 p.m.

Italian Gen. Italo Balbo's arrival in Chicago was a spectacular performance freighted with future history. Early on the evening of July 15, 1933, his air fleet could be glimpsed amid...

Victoria Spencer, daughter of Mary Belle Spencer, was scheduled to do a fan dance at the Oriental Theatre on Feb. 28, 1937, garbed in two large ostrich feather fans.

Pioneering female lawyer bucked tradition and raised her girls to ‘do as they please,’ making news along the way

March 12, 2024 at 12:01 p.m.

Logic suggests that someone who has served as public guardian, a lawyer appointed to represent minors in court, would be a by-the-book mother to her own children. But logic rarely...

Visitors look at original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on July 4, 2001, at the National Archives in Washington.

Ron Grossman: Why we should return to reciting the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Back in the day, a Fourth of July celebration without a reading of the Declaration of Independence would be as unsatisfying as a barbecue without potato salad made with Grandma's...

Chicago's first auto race is about to start in Jackson Park on Thanksgiving in 1895.

During Chicago’s auto racing heyday, a NASCAR race in Soldier Field ended in a razor-slim victory by Fireball Roberts

September 5, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

The NASCAR drivers who will shortly roar around Michigan Avenue and DuSable Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago were preceded by stock car racers circling a track inside Soldier Field...

Midway Airlines employees, some crying, pick up their personal belongings on Nov. 14, 1991, after the airline shut down.

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

March 12, 2024 at 12:03 p.m.

During this vacation travel season, a couple of million passengers can be expected to pass through Midway Airport, that wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the aeronautical equivalent of...

Gay icon Margaret Anderson was a freethinker whose life echoed the words of Joyce’s Molly Bloom

March 12, 2024 at 12:03 p.m.

On an August day in 1915, Margaret Anderson gave Tribune readers an account of the simple life she was experiencing, though not exactly of her own volition. A landlord had...

People place hands on the casket carrying Rudy Lozano's body before his burial at St. Mary's Cemetery at 87th Street and Hamlin Avenue in Evergreen Park on June 13, 1983.

Latino activist Rudy Lozano was murdered 40 years ago. Some called it a ‘political assassination.’

June 4, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

On the morning of June 8, 1983, Rudy Lozano's wife was lying in bed when she heard her husband talking to someone at the door of their apartment at 4035...

Children play at McKeon Park at the corner of 36th and Wallace streets in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago on May 23, 2023. The park was dedicated to Lt. Joseph T. McKeon Jr. in 1967, after he was killed in Vietnam.

In Bridgeport, a play lot keeps memories of a fallen soldier alive

May 28, 2023 at 7:08 a.m.

The Lt. Joseph T. McKeon Jr. Park consists of a few swings and such for kids and a bench for their parents. It might not catch a passerby's eye except...

Cuban refugees step off a bus and into a holding area at Fort McCoy in 1980 after a ride from the La Crosse Municipal Airport. Fort McCoy served as a processing center for Cuban refugees from the Mariel Boatlift.

Tales of the Mariel Boatlift, when thousands of Cubans landed in the United States

May 21, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

In 1980, two Cuban teenagers jumped the fence at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and went looking for a judge. "They were 16 going on 60 in many ways," a social...

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