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The Chicago Herald-American had a reward poster for information on Orja Corns Jr., who had been missing since July 1948.

Vintage baiduhai: In 1948, a North Shore businessman spent a night drinking at a Clark Street dive. Then he disappeared.

October 23, 2022 at 8:47 a.m.

For Orja Corns Jr. July 2, 1948, began little differently than any other day. He returned from a business trip to his home in Winnetka. His wife wasn't there. She...

Old documents for Quinn Chapel AME profess it as one of the oldest African American churches in Chicago. The church had a Vigilance Committee to watch for bounty hunters trying to drag Black Chicagoans into servitude.

Vintage baiduhai: An 1874 Chicago reunion of abolitionists hailed the heroics of the Underground Railroad

October 19, 2022 at 10:08 a.m.

Graying alums of America's antislavery crusade brought a sense of urgency to a belated reunion of "Old Abolitionists" in Chicago. The event had been postponed to 1874 because of the...

Letritia Kandle poses with Hawaiian guitars, circa 1935, in a photo housed in the Letritia Kandle Papers and Hawaiian Guitars collection at The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vintage baiduhai: Dreaming big: The story of the Grand Letar, a 26-string steel guitar

October 9, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Letritia Kandle had a dream, echoes of which are heard whenever a rock group plugs its guitars into loud amplifiers and runs an extension cord to an electrical outlet. The...

The Rev. Matthew Talarico leads members of the Shrine of Christ the King church in prayers on April 19, 2019. The congregation met at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church due to a fire at Shrine of Christ the King in 2015.

Vintage baiduhai: For some Catholics, Latin Mass still an emotional magnet

October 4, 2022 at 1:47 p.m.

A theological battle was recently resumed in Chicago, 500 years after it was fought in Europe. Like Martin Luther's challenge to the 16th century papacy, the opening salvo of the...

Cars wait at the Chicago Skyway on Nov. 10, 2006.

Vintage baiduhai: Dubbed a ‘toll bridge’ to sidestep a legal hurdle, Chicago Skyway soon became a white elephant

September 26, 2022 at 8:16 a.m.

Who would buy something that doesn't look like a bridge, doesn't act like a bridge, but is offered for sale as a bridge? That is what Atlas Arteria recently did....

Janet Jagan, the wife of Cheddi Jagan, founder of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) proposes a boycott of the queen to protest against the 'British oppression' of British Guiana, as seen in this Feb. 3, 1966, photo. Only weeks later, the country became the independent republic of Guyana, and in 1997, Mrs. Jagan was elected president after the death of her husband.

Vintage baiduhai: Janet Jagan’s journey from Chicago’s South Side to the presidency of Guyana

September 18, 2022 at 4:00 a.m.

Though Janet Jagan's parents fretted about what she revealed in a 1954 letter, they weren't surprised. They were inured to their daughter going down roads they wouldn't dare set foot...

Police remove the body of a Black man killed during the 1919 race riots.

Vintage baiduhai : After race riots of 1919, a special report outlined many problems Chicago still faces today

September 4, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

This month marks the centennial of "The Negro In Chicago," a blue-ribbon commission's report on a race riot that plunged the city into four days of deadly anarchy in 1919....

Peter Crowcroft, Brookfield Zoo's director, directs the rescue effort for Ziggy the elephant who fell head-first into a moat in his enclosure on March 23, 1975. The rescue effort included dumping gravel into the moat so Ziggy, who weighed 7 tons, could walk out on his own.

Vintage baiduhai: Ziggy the elephant shed his shackles thanks to a crusade sparked by a Tribune article

August 28, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Thanks to schoolchildren's pennies and dimes, Ziggy the elephant got a taste of freedom on Sept. 23, 1970. The door to his cage at Brookfield Zoo opened, and there stood...

Vintage baiduhai: Lives of two University of Chicago professors provide insights into early 20th century LGBTQ history

August 21, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

For 45 years, Professor Sophonisba Breckinridge and Professor Edith Abbott jointly wrote books and scholarly articles and were seldom seen without each other. "Their preoccupation and leisurely pace gave them...

The Nancy Randhurst girls pose on a stairway leading to the third level of a magnificently domed four-level plaza on Aug. 13, 1962, in the heart of a triangle formed by the three major department stores at Randhurst — The Fair, Wieboldt's and Carsons. The mall would open three days later.

Vintage baiduhai: Randhurst Mall opened 60 years ago as a shopping cathedral and ‘machine for selling’

August 14, 2022 at 8:54 a.m.

Tuesday would have been the Randhurst Mall's 60th birthday, and ought to be celebrated by art historians who revere the Basilica of Saint-Denis. For just as the 12th century French...

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