Ron Grossman – Page 39

The scene at the Wofford Hotel along the Miami River front in Miami, Fla., after the Great Miami hurricane hit in September 1926.

Chicago and the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

Two days after the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, Chicago dispatched a train loaded with relief supplies, doctors and nurses, yet those aboard could barely sense the magnitude of the...

Riot police stand before Antifa members and counterprotesters during a No To Marxism rally on Aug. 27, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif.

History shows why liberals should worry about ‘antifa’

May 23, 2019 at 4:04 a.m.

Though history doesn't repeat itself, it can be read for clues to where a recent attack on right-wingers by leftists is taking us. A week ago Sunday, a "Rally Against...

Perri Jenkins, 9, of Houston, looks at a display in 2010 depicting teenage house servant Israel Gillette during a tour of an exhibit about the lives of slaves at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in Charlottesville, Va.

Don’t topple statues of Founding Fathers, update your thinking about them

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

Amid the uproar set off by Donald Trump's response to the clash of white nationalists and counterprotestors in Charlottesville, Va., one of his arguments was summarily dismissed by pundits and...

The .32-caliber Colt revolver and slug used by Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti to kill himself March 19, 1943, shown at the county morgue.

Frank ‘The Enforcer’ Nitti: 1930s crime boss extorted millions in Hollywood

May 11, 2019 at 4:13 a.m.

In Hollywood's golden age, the movie industry was a cash cow with an Achilles' heel. A strike could wreak havoc with shooting schedules and budgets, making studios vulnerable to unscrupulous...

The shadow of the Picasso sculpture stretches across Daley Plaza in the morning light June 14, 2016.

50 years ago, Picasso’s sculpture challenged Chicago’s imagination

May 11, 2019 at 4:12 a.m.

Chicago's Picasso, a 162-ton steel sculpture hovering 50 feet over Daley Plaza, has been slowly turning colors and gaining in popularity for 50 years. Oxidation has given it a rusting...

In this July 31, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

The Republican Party was born of moral outrage — and is dying for lack of it

May 11, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

The Republican Party was born with an acute moral sense but expired last Friday, blind to the difference between right and wrong. No, it's not dead in the clinical sense....

President Donald Trump delivers a speech on July 6, 2017, in Krasinski Square, backdropped by the monument commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, in Warsaw, Poland.

In defense of bureaucracy to protect the little people

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

I could pretty much agree with Donald Trump's list of enemies to Western civilization. In a speech during his recent trip to Poland, the president said our way of life...

A sign on Highway M 139, just three miles south of I94, advertises for the House of David colony in Benton Harbor, Mich. on Aug. 14, 1977.

A cult in Benton Harbor: The good and (alleged) evil of the House of David

May 11, 2019 at 4:09 a.m.

One of the most remarkable things about the Israelite House of David — a religious commune founded in 1903 in Michigan — is that it still exists. Its tumultuous history...

When opportunity knocked, Sam went running

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

My pal Sam fought success more successfully than anybody I've ever run into. There is a hint of him in Saul Bellow's short story, "Address By Gooley MacDowell to the...

Joe Kaplan sells dishes to Mrs. Freida Sawyer at Maxwell and Peoria Streets, circa April 1927.

As Chicago changes, memory preserves what the bulldozer destroys

May 23, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

Though the sign at Halsted and Maxwell looked ludicrously out of place, I had a nudging sense of having previously encountered something akin to it. Yet it couldn't have been...

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