Ron Grossman – Page 8

Advising William Tiberio, a bowling team member traveling to Youngstown, Ohio from Des Moines, Iowa, on how to spend his stopover time is Mrs. Frederick Tredwell, right, in Chicago in 1962. Tredwell mans the Travelers Aid booth at Grand Central station.

Travelers Aid Society has provided succor to lost and lonely new arrivals to Chicago since the late 1800s

March 12, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

In October 1924, Kalliope Koyka got off a train in Chicago wearing a tag pinned on her by an agent of the Travelers Aid Society. Speaking virtually no English, the...

An exterior photo shows the Hawthorne Hotel in Cicero, the headquarters of Al Capone's gang, just after it was sprayed by machine gun fire from a passing car on Sept. 20, 1926.

As dice start to roll legally in Chicago, a look back at the city’s underworld gambling history

March 12, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

With dice rolling across the craps table at Medinah Temple, it may be worthwhile to recall that unsanctioned gambling long flourished in Chicago, giving rise to Patrick Healy's admonition when...

Richard Henry Pratt, the founder and superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on horseback circa 1901.

Native Americans from the Dakotas were brought to Des Plaines in 1880s in ill-fated assimilation effort

March 12, 2024 at 11:53 a.m.

For many, steam rising from turkeys fresh out the oven last week evoked images of the Pilgrims. Schoolchildren learn that the origin of American democracy is the Mayflower Compact by...

People sing during a community solidarity gathering for Israel hosted by the Jewish United Fund of Chicago on Oct. 10, 2023, outside North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe.

Ron Grossman: Today’s backlash against Jewish people is steeped in a long history of hatred

November 19, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

At the first reports of a massacre of Israeli civilians, I shuddered, fearing the worst was yet to come. Sadly, I was right. Before sundown on Oct. 7, Israel was...

Judge Mary Bartelme, center, is surrounded by supporters, including her sister Adelaide, at her election headquarters at the Sherman House Hotel in Chicago in November 1923.

Chicago’s trailblazing first female judge known for looking after juveniles, stating, ‘There are no bad children’

March 12, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

In November 1923 Mary Bartelme had won the popular vote to become a Circuit Court judge, the first woman to be elected to a position in “a court of such...

Vacating the quonset huts on the campus of Northwestern University before they are razed are John Reardon, from left, George Karney, David Patterson and Larry Klecko in March 1953. The huts were added to the campus in 1946 as housing for veterans coming home from World War II who wanted an education.

GI Bill sent thousands of vets back to school after World War II, and colleges responded with innovative housing

March 12, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

Visually, the University of Chicago was a mind-bending experience in the aftermath of World War II. The school's original architects were inspired by the Gothic architecture of England's Cambridge and...

An engraving shows what railroad travel looked like near the end of the 19th century in America.

In 1883, much of the nation reset its clocks on ‘the day of two noons’

March 12, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

On Nov. 18, 1883, the scene at a Chicago railroad station reminded a Tribune reporter of the biblical story of Joshua commanding the sun to stand still. "At about a...

The Pioneer, a small locomotive, was the first railroad engine to operate in Chicago in the fall of 1848. It provided the inspiration for the Railroad Fair of 1948, commemorating 100 years of the railroad in Chicago.

William B. Ogden and the railroad that pioneered Chicago’s place as a transportation hub

March 12, 2024 at 11:53 a.m.

On Oct. 25, 1848, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad dispatched a train from a station on Kinzie Street just north of the Chicago River. It was the first railroad...

Chicago police officers carry protester Bernie Sanders, 21, in August 1963 to a police wagon from the mobile classroom site at West 73rd Street and South Lowe Avenue in Chicago. He was arrested during a civil rights demonstration, charged with resisting arrest, found guilty and fined $25.

On ‘Freedom Day’ in 1963, thousands of Chicago students skipped school to protest segregation

March 12, 2024 at 11:53 a.m.

Although civil rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supported the designation of Oct. 22, 1963, as "Freedom Day," its success was not guaranteed. Older Black organizations and clergy...

"Uncle Joe" Cannon, who was speaker of the U.S. House from 1903 to 1911.

In the early 1900s, ‘Uncle Joe’ Cannon of Illinois was a powerful House speaker who defied an ouster effort

March 12, 2024 at 11:54 a.m.

Joe Cannon was a Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois who survived an overthrow plot more than 100 years before the blunderbuss attack that earlier this...

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