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Illinois state Rep. Lottie Holman O'Neill, of Downers Grove, raises her right hand in front of Chief Justice Floyd Thompson in Illinois, circa 1923.

Lottie O’Neill, Illinois’ first female state legislator, decided a woman’s place was also in Springfield

June 23, 2019 at 11:36 p.m.

Lottie O'Neill was accompanied by more than 1,000 women when she walked down a flag-draped aisle in the legislative chamber and took a seat in the fifth row on the...

Students line up in October 1945 to register for the opening of University of Illinois classes on Navy Pier. College enrollment soared as the government paid for veterans' college education after World War II.

An affordable college education catapulted him into the middle class. Is that path now lost?

May 23, 2019 at 4:14 a.m.

My father wore my high school ring until the day he died. My mind’s eye pictured that ring when the college admissions scandal recently broke. What those wealthy families did...

Dr. Beatrice Tucker, left, tends to a patient at the Chicago Maternity Center on Jan. 3, 1943. Earlier, Tucker so impressed prominent obstetrician Dr. Joseph DeLee in her residency that he asked her to lead the center, which she did for four decades.

Pioneering Chicago obstetrician Beatrice Tucker spent 4 decades overseeing crucial care for impoverished women

June 23, 2019 at 11:39 p.m.

When Dr. Joseph DeLee met Beatrice Tucker, he didn't like what he saw: a woman who wanted to deliver babies. He was a prominent obstetrician, and she desperately wanted to...

The West Side Irish Club float heads down State Street during the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 17, 1967.

Politics and parades: Chicago’s long history of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

June 23, 2019 at 11:41 p.m.

With a weekend of St. Patrick's Day revelry upon us, it may seem that Chicago has always celebrated the holiday with parades and politicians. And that's almost true. The first...

The cast of Second City -- Bill Mathieu, Howard Alk, Eugene Troobnick, Andrew Duncan, Barbara Harris, Mina Kolb and Severn Darden -- assemble for one of the skits in the new satirical revue entitled, "The Third Programme," circa 1960.

Second City and its nerdy University of Chicago roots: How a ‘lost cause’ grew into a comedic giant

June 23, 2019 at 11:42 p.m.

Before The Second City's doors even opened, the Tribune's nightlife columnist wrote an obituary for the famed cabaret comedy theater. Will Leonard wrote that the theater founders' previous enterprises, two...

Ald. Edward Burke, center, turns himself in Jan. 3, 2019, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. He's facing a federal attempted extortion charge.

Could we need a bit more aldermanic privilege?

May 11, 2019 at 5:12 a.m.

You could pore over Chicago’s ordinances from now to doomsday, but you won’t find the two little words that can allow a developer to build a multipurpose structure on a...

President Donald Trump declares a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border during remarks about border security in the Rose Garden of the White House on Feb. 15, 2019.

Trump and the Magna Carta

May 23, 2019 at 4:13 a.m.

In 1215, a group of English nobles took their king prisoner to prevent him from doing what President Donald Trump just did: taking and spending the people's money without the...

Robert Summerbell, left, and Percy Julian at the Northwestern University convocation Dec. 2, 1951.

Chemist Percy Julian pushed past racial barriers — amid attacks on his Oak Park home

June 23, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

He hadn't even moved into the spacious house on North East Avenue when Percy Lavon Julian got an unmistakable message that someone didn't want the internationally renowned scientist living in...

The door to Ald. Ben Lewis' office at 3604-06 W. Roosevelt Road on Feb. 28, 1963, the day he was found murdered in his office.

The cold-case murder of ‘Big Cat’ Ben Lewis, the 24th Ward’s first black alderman

June 23, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

Initially Ella Lewis wasn't overly worried when she woke up in the middle of the night to find her husband wasn't home, two days after being re-elected alderman of Chicago's...

Dorothy Mae Stevens, 23, is still alive despite having a body temperature of 64 degrees at Michael Reese Hospital on Feb. 8, 1951, the day she was discovered in a gangway near Washington Park in Chicago.

Chicago’s ‘frozen woman’: The amazing, true story of Dorothy Mae Stevens

February 9, 2021 at 3:38 p.m.

It was on a freezing-cold day — much like the ones Chicago has been experiencing — that Dorothy Mae Stevens became famous, the hard way. On Feb. 7, 1951, it...

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