Ron Grossman – Page 44

Steve Bannon, who was named as a chief strategist for President-elect Donald Trump, waits as Trump walks toward him after he spoke during a campaign rally at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater on November 2, 2016 in Miami, Fla.

Will Trump election mean airbrushed history?

May 23, 2019 at 4:01 a.m.

I took the first steps toward becoming a professor of history while learning Chicago's story at Bateman Elementary School on the Northwest Side. I learned that the city's first permanent...

Circa 1620, the signatures of the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic in the Mayflower, on the "Mayflower Compact." Included are William Brewster, William Bradford, Myles Standish and Edward Winslow.

Blame the Pilgrims for our postelection blues

May 23, 2019 at 4:01 a.m.

If you're feeling grumpy this Thanksgiving, blame it on the Pilgrims. Around our holiday tables, we customarily salute them for setting sail on the Mayflower in search of freedom to...

Donald Trump shakes hands with hopefuls waiting in line at open auditions for "The Apprentice 2," which drew a large crowd March 18, 2004, in New York.

To understand Trump’s win, get off the highway

August 9, 2019 at 12:19 a.m.

I wish I'd observed in print that Donald Trump was going to win, having received advance notice on the back roads of Middle America. But my psyche was slow to...

The famous front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which erroneously declared that Republican Thomas Dewey had defeated incumbent President Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election.

It’s happened before: Truman’s defeat of Dewey had hints of Trump-Clinton

May 11, 2019 at 3:42 a.m.

Donald Trump's Tuesday night stunner eerily mimicked the topsy-turvy finale of the 1948 presidential election: Both were won by an underdog — who was written off by his party, the...

Vote rigging, democracy and an accidental precinct captain

May 11, 2019 at 3:42 a.m.

Allow me to bear witness that fixing a presidential election would be infinitely harder than Donald Trump thinks. As of 1980, there were 167,037 election precincts in the United States....

Hiram Bithorn, center, is welcomed back to the Cubs pitching staff after service in the Navy by Claude Passeau, left, and manager Charlie Grimm on Sept. 6, 1945.

For 1945 Cubs, World Series followed the World War

May 11, 2019 at 3:49 a.m.

In the spring of 1945, many a Tribune reader must have blinked in disbelief at headlines suggesting that World War II was coming to a close and the Cubs were...

Dylan participated in MTV's long-running "Unplugged" series in 1994.

Pity the English teacher, now that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize

May 23, 2019 at 4:01 a.m.

Pity the high school English teacher, now that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in literature. A fancy shindig in Stockholm awaits the iconic folk singer, if he deigns...

Eleanor Sims, 19, and Mrs. (Florence) Willard T. Orr, 25, at the South Shore Country Club in June 1932. "Tonight there will be a fashion show also with members of the club as mannequins, including Mrs. Willard T. Orr and Miss Eleanor Sims," the Tribune reported that June 8.

South Shore: From exclusive country club to inclusive cultural center

May 11, 2019 at 3:40 a.m.

The view from the South Shore Country Club was like that of Janus, the Roman god with two faces. It depended upon which way members looked. Hugging the shoreline at...

La Lira and Monte Carlo Imported Italian Foods featuring Italian sausage, Italian bread and more on March 5, 1975. The store signs indicate the ethnic character of the majority of Highwood's population.

Italians of Highwood: The immigrants who built Chicago’s wealthy suburbs

May 11, 2019 at 3:38 a.m.

As the nation celebrates Columbus Day and the contributions of Italian-Americans on Monday, many may be surprised to learn how Highwood, a suburb about 20 miles north of Chicago, fits...

The deplorable history of U.S. campaign mudslinging

May 11, 2019 at 3:37 a.m.

With Hillary Clinton calling Donald Trump's supporters "deplorables," and he calling her "Crooked Hillary," we seemed to have reached an unprecedented low in mudslinging politics. But the reality is even...

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