Ron Grossman – Page 9

A grain elevator of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway company sits on the Santa Fe slip on the Chicago River at South Damen Avenue, circa 1953. (baiduhai historical photo)

Threatened Damen Silos a remnant of Chicago’s days as a ‘Stacker of Wheat’

July 3, 2025 at 4:59 p.m.

If the Damen Avenue Silos are demolished, they will take with them some of the final remains of Carl Sandburg's poetic salute to Chicago: "Hog Butcher for the World, Tool...

Ald. Fred Roti, 1st, center, and 1st Ward Democratic Committeeman John D'Arco Sr., front right, walk into the Criminal Courts Building at 26th Street and California Avenue with attorney Robert J. Cooley, back left, in 1980.

Sal Pullia, who had ties to politics and the Chicago Outfit, was last seen at a Melrose Park restaurant in ’81

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

When a politician disappears, the police usually have some good ideas about where to look for him or his bullet-ridden body. They ask bartenders if he has been showing up...

The Chicago Defender wrote about Dreamland Cafe in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1920.

In segregated Chicago, black and tans provided lively nightlife in the early 20th century

March 12, 2024 at 11:55 a.m.

In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago's demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she...

A drawing of the Chicago Water Works looking east, shows the two major buildings: the engine and boiler room building, right, and the tower, center, both made of limestone from a Lemont quarry.

Lemont limestone, the ‘Athens marble’ of early Chicago

March 12, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

The Lemont limestone story begins eons before there was a Chicago with a Water Tower and Holy Name Cathedral, both built with locally mined stone that slowly turns from white...

A crowd arrives early at the special entrance for Ladies Day at Wrigley Field for a game between the Cubs and the Mets on Sept. 4, 1970, in Chicago.

Ladies Day was once a regular promotion at Chicago’s ballparks

March 12, 2024 at 11:56 a.m.

In 1919, three years after National League officials stepped in to stop the Chicago Cubs' plans for a Ladies Day promotion, the team ran an advertisement over the signature of...

A crowd parades down State Street to the Coliseum on April 3, 1971, in memory of the slain civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It would be two more years before the state of Illinois would create MLK Day, legally honoring King.

In 1973, Illinois became the first state to create a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.

January 14, 2025 at 3:56 p.m.

On Sept. 17, 1973, Illinois became the first state to make Martin Luther King Day a legal holiday. Gov. Dan Walker signed two bills into law that day. That's not...

The wedding of Madeleine Childs and William Allan Pinkerton Pullman in Lake Forest on July 1, 1925. "After the ceremony the guests followed the bridal party across the road to the spacious Childs residence, where the bride and bridegroom, and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Frederick Childs, and Mrs. William C. Pullman, received. Supper was served from tables under a gay striped canopy, at little tables under the trees. The broad lawn surrounding the house was bordered with a bright tinted garden and peonies and lillies floated on the sunken pool."

Long-ago coverage of Chicago-area weddings captured grandeur, delightful quirks — and boredom

March 12, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

Greek mythology explains our desire to find love this way: Humans originally had four arms and legs and a head with two faces. Fearing them, Zeus split them in two,...

The University of Chicago Maroon's battle against the Huskies from Washington University on Nov. 23, 1929, at Stagg Field. Chicago won 26-6.

After an 85-0 drubbing by Michigan in 1939, the University of Chicago decided football and academia were not a good mix

March 12, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

In 1939, the University of Chicago's football team was so bad that the Tribune headlined its report on one game with barely concealed sarcasm: "Maroons hold Michigan and Harmon, 85...

Eleanor Jarman received 199 years for her part in the murder of Gustav Hoeh in 1933. Editors note: this historic print has some hand painting on it.

The capture of the ‘Blonde Tigress’ captivated Chicagoans in 1933. Then she vanished.

March 12, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

In 1993, Doug Jarman made a last-ditch effort to find a grandmother whose last known whereabouts were a prison she fled in 1940. Harrison Ford's movie "The Fugitive" made stories...

Superintendent Benjamin Willis attends a school hearing for the Chicago Board of Education in 1965.

Segregation, overcrowded schools and mobile classrooms combined to create turmoil in the 1960s

March 12, 2024 at 11:59 a.m.

A truck towing what appeared to be a pair of house trailers pulled up to Parker Elementary School on Jan. 15, 1962. The aluminum structures, ordered by the Chicago Board...

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