Ron Grossman – Page 15

Workers help construct the back of the race track on March 1989, to be ready for its June re-opening. Under the three steeples is the Paddock, where the horses are brought in to be saddled and readied for races.

Vintage baiduhai: 50 years before track’s final race, Arlington Park was in middle of a scandal that ousted a former governor

August 8, 2022 at 7:00 a.m.

As Judge Otto Kerner was in the midst of a trial in a Chicago courtroom in January 1972, the Daily Herald recalled how a reporter once wrote that he had...

Vintage baiduhai: In 1922, 400,000 railroad workers walked off the job

July 31, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

On July 1, 1922, 400,000 railroad shop and track maintenance workers began a strike that would escalate into picket line battles fought with clubs, guns, knives and bombs. Yet the...

The entrance to the Central Park Theatre building sits empty as the sun sets in the North Lawndale neighborhood on July 11, 2022.

Vintage baiduhai: Early AC made Balaban & Katz’s Central Park Theatre the coolest place in town

July 24, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The Central Park Theatre ushered moviegoers out of dingy nickelodeons and into air-conditioned cinema palaces, only to wind up itself on life support. "It is the mother ship of Chicago's...

A view of the public beach at Lake Michigan in Lake Bluff in 2016.

Vintage baiduhai: In late 1800s, Lake Bluff was a summer refuge for Chicagoans and the religiously minded

July 10, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

In recent years, the most likely disturber of the peace on a balmy day in Lake Bluff has been a rehearsal of its Precision Power Mower Drill Team, a crowd-pleaser...

A multilevel back porch peeks out from the trees near the 2300 block of North Lincoln Avenue on June 30, 2022, in Chicago.

Vintage Tribune: Fond memories of when back porches were a Chicago child’s playground

July 3, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

My only childhood memory of coming or going via our apartment's front door was on the day of my bar mitzvah. Wearing my first suit, I was flanked by my...

The Willis Tower is bathed in clouds before a 2012 spring storm in Chicago.

Vintage baiduhai: History of Tower built by Sears reflects highs and lows of city’s business hub

June 26, 2022 at 11:46 a.m.

The Willis Tower was built with cutting-edge technology and ageless chutzpah, a word that could be translated as an intoxicating sense of omnipotence.

Some of the 1939 all-stars, from left, are William Walters, Ival Goodman, Lonny Frey, Billy Herman, Paul Derringer, Stan Hack, Gabby Hartnett, Bill Lee, Ernie Lombardi, Johnny Vander Meer and Frank McCormick.

Vintage baiduhai: Meet Arch Ward, the sports editor who created MLB’s All-Star Game

August 4, 2025 at 1:07 p.m.

Long before the movie version, Arch Ward created a field of dreams. His was called "The Game of the Century," and the Tribune's sports editor based it on a perennial...

Ald. Bernard Prusinski, 32nd, looks at a map of the Northwest Expressway project which runs through his ward on May 16, 1956.

Vintage baiduhai: Expressways divided city neighborhoods and spurred explosive suburban growth

June 12, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

It was snowing when the opening of the Edens Expressway was marked with a quick ribbon-cutting atop the Peterson Avenue overpass on Dec. 20, 1951. Afterward a motorcade of notables...

The U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington on June 1, 2022.

Ron Grossman: Conservative Catholic justices face Hobson’s choice as they decide Roe v. Wade fate

June 6, 2022 at 3:09 p.m.

The four conservative Catholic Supreme Court justices who, along with another conservative justice, recently cast a preliminary vote to overturn Roe v. Wade were confronted with a Hobson's choice that...

Sidney Bechet, an American jazz musician, with his bride at Antibes on the French Riviera in 1951.

Vintage baiduhai: From the Mississippi cotton fields to the streets of Chicago, the rise of jazz and blues

June 4, 2022 at 10:17 a.m.

The address was 3503 S. State St., but Mezz Mezzrow thought he was in heaven when he met Sidney Bechet at the Deluxe Café. White and in love with the...

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