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Crowds gather at the entrance to the tunnel where Alfred "Jake" Lingle was murdered on June 9, 1930.

Vintage baiduhai: Jake Lingle lived well beyond the means of a Tribune reporter. After his slaying, it became clear how.

June 1, 2022 at 3:31 p.m.

Jake Lingle walked toward the stairway to the Illinois Central Railroad station at Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue, on June 9, 1930. A cigar bobbed in the Tribune reporter's mouth,...

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.

Vintage baiduhai: How Chicago became the go-to city for political conventions

June 20, 2025 at 8:04 p.m.

On the run-up to the 1860 Republican Convention, Abraham Lincoln got cold feet. The baiduhai was tirelessly touting him as the party's choice for president. But Lincoln was juggling...

A colorized engraving shows a composite scene from the Haymarket Riot, where an initially peaceful labor protest devolved into a full-scale riot following the detonation of a bomb thrown by protestors (seen in the background) and the police response of indiscriminate firing into the largely unarmed (despite this picture's contrary view) crowd, in Chicago on May 4, 1886.

Flashback: Chicago’s place at the forefront of labor history

April 30, 2025 at 3:54 p.m.

"The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today," August Spies said, standing under a gallows in a courtyard of the old...

The script of NBC's "Today's Children" called for a scene in a day nursery. Being a stickler for realism, author Irna Phillips had microphones set up in a real nursery in Chicago, circa 1937. She's shown here talking over the situation with her stars for the day.

Flashback: Chicago writer Irna Phillips and the birth of the soap opera

May 5, 2022 at 11:47 a.m.

In 1931, Irna Phillips stood before a microphone in WGN's studio and read the part of Sue in a script she had written. Another staffer, Irene Wicker, played Irene. IRENE:...

Gus Alex hides his face while sitting in a car at the detective bureau on Sept. 9, 1946, before his release on a habeas corpus writ.

Flashback: An ex-G-man’s tales from a real-life mobbed-up tailor shop

April 28, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

Celano's Custom Tailors on the Magnificent Mile was the prototype of the setting for the movie "The Outfit": a fitting room where Chicago gangsters plotted their dirty work unaware they...

Jubilant workers for Richard M. Daley raise the hand of the "champ" on Nov. 5, 1980, in their 11th Ward headquarters after Bernard Carey phoned Daley to concede in their race for state's attorney.

Flashback: As Richard M. Daley turns 80, a look at his political rise and embrace of ‘lakefront liberals’

April 22, 2022 at 6:33 a.m.

One Saturday in 1980, Richard M. Daley, a product of beer-chugging Bridgeport, paid a visit to Dawn Clark Netsch's Old Town salon of pinot grigio-sipping liberals.

The Century Building at 202 S. State St. in September 1940.

Flashback: Chicago remains a ‘city of skyscrapers,’ but two early examples may be nearing a date with the wrecking ball

April 14, 2022 at 7:48 p.m.

Should a wrecking ball strike the Century Building at 202 S. State St., there will be a bittersweet moment when modern architecture's debt to Chicago is starkly revealed. The falling...

Flashback: After labor strife this spring, it’s opening day for baseball. In 1890, disgruntled players formed a separate league.

April 7, 2022 at 12:48 p.m.

A visitor from abroad during the 1890 baseball season might have thought Marxists were rallying in Brotherhood Park upon hearing echoes of "We are the people! We are the people!"...

Chicago's Greektown in May 1969 was a cluster of a dozen or so businesses at the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and Halsted Street.

Flashback: Memories of when Greektown was ‘a mile long and 24 hours’

June 29, 2026 at 12:07 p.m.

The telltale landmarks are fewer now than they were when the Tribune offered readers concise directions to Greektown 70 years ago. "When you reach the point on Halsted St. near...

A Ukrainian folk dance group performs at the YMCA at 826 S. Wabash Ave. on April 25, 1966, in Chicago.

Flashback: Chicago’s Ukrainians have long shown a passion for their homeland

March 24, 2022 at 4:21 p.m.

The fierce patriotism Ukrainians have shown in resisting Russian tanks was previewed on the Lake Michigan shoreline in 1933. The Ukrainian Pavilion stood there during the Century of Progress Exposition,...

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