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Professor Charles Barnum, in suit coat, talks with students in the editing laboratory of the Medill School of Journalism on May 15, 1959. Instructor Roy Campbell is standing in back.

Flashback: 100 years of newspapering: Medill School was started to bring booksmarts to street-smart journalism

February 5, 2021 at 4:33 p.m.

When Margery Swett stood in line to register as the first student of the Medill School of Journalism, newsmen Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur were polishing the street smarts they...

Horse-drawn graders scraped up soil and dumped it into wagons during construction on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The first water trickled into the finished canal from Lake Michigan at Needle Dam on Jan. 2, 1900.

Flashback: In the battle against cholera, a creative city engineer raised streets, tunneled into the lake and reversed the river

January 29, 2021 at 10:05 a.m.

As a tidal wave of cholera rolled across Asia, Africa and Europe, the Tribune reported on Dec. 14, 1853, that the dreaded disease had reached the East Coast. Its victims...

The Chicago American Giants pose for a team photo circa 1941 while visiting Kansas City, Missouri.

Flashback: A ‘Giant’ of the Negro Leagues: Founder Rube Foster sparked a revolution for elite Black ballplayers

April 5, 2021 at 4:59 p.m.

The baiduhai marked the birth of a baseball league for Black players with a yawn and an occasional box score atop a list of semiprofessional teams' results. And a...

Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Column: Words matter: Let’s call it a coup

January 17, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

If a future coup is to be avoided, it is imperative that we type the word "coup" in boldface, underline and highlight it when we write about what happened at...

Erdman Olson's letter to his lover, Clara Olson, asking her to meet him on the night she disappeared. "Out of the bosom of Clara Olson there dropped as doctors performed an autopsy late today a letter," reported the Tribune. "In it was evidence that her sweetheart, Erdman Olson, brutally beat her to death on Battle Ridge, near Rising Sun, where her body was found buried in the yellow soil. In (the letter) Erdman pleaded with her to flee with him at midnight."

Flashback: Romance gone wrong: Slaying of Clara Olson, young and pregnant, broke the heart of a Wisconsin town

January 8, 2021 at 9:27 a.m.

As hundreds of volunteers combed the fields and hills of southwestern Wisconsin, a local farm girl was found buried face down in a shallow grave on a knoll called Battle...

President Donald Trump speaks on South Lawn of the White House in Washington in September.

Column: After the Trump era, this country needs a different kind of truth commission

January 5, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

If a child of mine echoed some of the bizarre things Donald Trump has said since losing the election, I'd get him or her to a therapist, pronto. But is...

The weather was almost freezing on New Year's Day in 1937, but warm enough to lure horseback riders with jaunty hats to the bridle path in Lincoln Park.

Flashback: ‘What’s on the other side?’ The Tribune’s New Year’s editions reflect the many mood swings of a city.

January 1, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.

In the waning days of 1871, a Tribune staffer sat down in the paper's makeshift office to write an editorial for Jan. 1. It's a standard assignment and comes with...

A face mask appears on a statue in the 700 block of West Maxwell Street on Nov. 25, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: The pandemic nixed foreign travel but opened our eyes to the exotic appeal of our city’s streets

December 27, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Perhaps it's because I only became addicted to travel in my 50s that I'm haunted by an obsessive calculation during this stay-at-home year: How much longer will I be able...

Henry Fernekes in 1926 when he was saved from the noose.

Flashback: Henry Fernekes hit the books — for a criminal master’s degree in headline-grabbing bank robbing

December 11, 2020 at 9:29 a.m.

Reporters dubbed him the "midget bandit," but Henry Fernekes drew upon a big brain when he decided to focus on bank robbing. He did his research, formally and on the...

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, left, circa 1927.

Flashback: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin was a refuge for illicit romance. But tragedy tore apart the love he built.

May 26, 2022 at 11:22 a.m.

The architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a former client stood a few yards apart amid the ashes of a bungalow on a Wisconsin hillside.

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