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Cornelius Van de Ven, left, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria, La., and Sen. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, right, pose next to a flood map of the Mississippi River, circa June 3, 1927. The two men were part of a flood control conference hosted by Chicago's Mayor William Hale Thompson to discuss the Great Flood of 1927 at the Hotel Sherman on June 2, 1927.

The Mississippi River flood of 1927

May 11, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

For a century and a half, Columbus, Ky., fought the Mississippi River to a draw, much like the towns of the Midwest and South that have been inundated during the...

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Veterans Memorial Building on Dec. 19, 2015, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Don’t look for Trumpism to disappear — even if the candidate does

August 21, 2019 at 6:06 p.m.

It's time for New Year's predictions, so here is mine, with an assist from Barack Obama: Even if Donald Trump is denied the Republican presidential nomination, don't bank on the...

At college campuses across the country, undergraduates now seem to get far less for much more money than their predecessors of generations past.

Undergrads get short shrift these days in higher education

May 11, 2019 at 2:54 a.m.

In the 1950s I got to study Plato and Darwin at the University of Chicago, where professors' enthusiasm for the Great Books was infectious and the cost reasonable. Working part...

Henry Ford, the Peace Ship and four Chicago babies

May 12, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.

His Model T having revolutionized the auto industry, Henry Ford thought he could end the carnage of World War I by sailing for Europe on the "Peace Ship," a chartered...

The crowd at Villa Venice for the Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. show on Nov. 26, 1962.

Chicago mob boss had Sinatra singing

November 26, 2022 at 11:01 a.m.

In 1962, at the height of his fame, Frank Sinatra gave a benefit performance at the behest of a British princess. He gave another for the head of the Chicago...

The RTW Veterans Center, seen Nov. 18, 2015, has been given several more months to meet city building code. The charity, in the 5500 block of South Martin Luther King Dr. across from Washington Park, got a repreive until May 7 at a Dec. 1, 2015, city hearing.

Veterans food pantry gets reprieve from city

June 16, 2018 at 10:39 a.m.

A volunteer-run food pantry for homeless veterans in the Washington Park neighborhood that was in danger of being closed because of numerous building violations got a reprieve Tuesday. After being...

Valerie Lilley of the Leathernecks M.C. got her group of Marine veterans who ride motorcycles involved in the effort to fix up the RTW Vet Center. The center, which is based across the street from Washington Park, has been cited for 32 code violations.

Volunteers pitch in, try to get South Side food pantry up to code

June 16, 2018 at 11:09 a.m.

Armed with saws and hammers, the Marines landed earlier this month on a rescue mission in the 5500 block of Martin Luther King Drive. The Leathernecks M.C., a group of...

Raising Chicago out of the mud

May 12, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.

Peer over the edge of the sidewalk along 24th Street in the Lower West Side community, and you're looking back into Chicago history. A hole the width of a front...

Northwestern University students protest in front of the administration building on May 3, 1968, after black students occupied the bursar's office, alleging that the university hadn't confronted Evanston's segregated housing.

College protesters didn’t always have football team behind them

May 12, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.

Unlike the campus activists who forced the University of Missouri system's president to resign Monday, the University of Chicago students who seized the administration building nearly half a century ago...

Julius Rosenwald, seen here in 1926, was a Chicago businessman and philanthropist who is best known for turning Sears, Roebuck & Co. into a retail giant.

Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald’s dollars and sense

May 12, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.

Julius Rosenwald was a hard-nosed Chicago businessman who made money by the bushelbasket and gave it away in similar proportions. In a city where other philanthropists put their names on...

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