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Today in History: Martin Luther King Jr. shot and killed

April 4, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and...

April 3, 2026 at 2:14 p.m.

Faith Julian, whose family was among the first to integrate Oak Park in the 1950s,...

April 3, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 3, according...

April 3, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On April 3, 1996, Theodore Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician known as the Unabomber, was arrested...

April 2, 2026 at 4:14 p.m.

Animal acts have mostly gone away, but the show must go on for the Triton...

April 2, 2026 at 7:11 p.m.

Flower vendors were banned from the city's streets in 1899, but Chicago by the 1920s...

April 2, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 2, according...

April 2, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Józef Wojtyła, died...

April 1, 2026 at 9:37 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 1, according...

April 1, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On April 1, 1984, singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father after...