Today in Chicago History

Before the fall: The ill-fated 1919 White Sox strike relaxed poses for a team picture. Eight Sox players were later charged with conspiracy to commit fraud after taking money to throw games. (National Baseball Library)

Today in Chicago History: White Sox lose best-of-nine 1919 World Series to Cincinnati Reds

By Kori Rumore

October 9, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 9, according...

Earl “Hymie” Weiss, shown circa 1925, became a top bootlegger and gangster in the Prohibition era before getting assassinated while walking on State Street. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

Vintage baiduhai: The violent life and ambush death of gang leader Earl ‘Hymie’ Weiss

By Kori Rumore

October 8, 2026 at 6:36 p.m.

Here's a look back at Weiss's life and death, with rarely seen photos and stories...

Kelvin Kiptum celebrates his Chicago Marathon world record victory, 2:00:35, with Bank of America Chicago Marathon Executive Race Director Carey Pinkowski, left, in Chicago’s Grant Park on Oct. 8, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum sets a world record in the Chicago Marathon

By Kori Rumore

October 8, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 8, according...

Harry Caray interviews Michael Jordan before the Crosstown Classic between the Chicago White Sox and the Cubs at Wrigley Field on April 7, 1994, in Chicago. (Mark Elias/AP)

Today in Chicago History: Michael Jordan — No. 45 — now batting for the White Sox

By Kori Rumore

April 7, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 7, according...

Patrons at a Walgreens soda fountain enjoy the first 3.2% beers in April 1933 in Chicago near the end of Prohibition. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

Today in Chicago History: Prohibition ends and locals drink up

By Kori Rumore

April 6, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 6, according...

Dick Portillo at the Portillo's on East Golf Road in Schaumburg on Dec. 21, 1990. (John Kringas/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: Dick Portillo opens the Dog House in Villa Park

By Kori Rumore

April 5, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 5, according...

When David Schumacher, owner of a hardware store at 3634 N. Central Ave., Chicago, hung a Chicago flag atop his business, he said no one recognized what it was. Still, he told the Tribune in August 1958 that he would continue flying it. (baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: The city’s now iconic flag adopted by City Council

By Kori Rumore

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

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 4, according...

Chicago Animal Care and Control employee Adrian Densmore is with a coyote that was found inside a Loop sandwich shop on April 3, 2007. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: A coyote walks into a Quiznos

By Kori Rumore

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

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

Employees of Eric Johnson Inc. wholesale florists at 630 S. Wabash Ave. sort flowers in April 1962. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: Garden shows, chrysanthemums and ‘Urbs in Horto’

By Kori Rumore

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

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

Svengoolie, aka Rich Koz, films his long-running classic horror movie show on Oct. 18, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: ‘Svengoolie’ broadcast across the country for the first time

By Kori Rumore

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

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

Either on foot or by car, the traveling is slow for Chicagoans who are making their way home through the slushy snow that fell on the city in a record-breaking spring storm on April 1, 1970. The commuters are walking north over the Morgan Street bridge. (David Nystrom/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: Record-breaking April snowfall — 8 inches — socks evening commuters in 1970

By Kori Rumore

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

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

Mayor Jane Byrne shakes hands with youngsters on April 2, 1981, outside a Cabrini-Green building where Bryne earlier waved to the crowd from the window of her fourth-floor apartment. (Jerry Tomaselli/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: Cabrini-Green’s new resident — Mayor Jane Byrne

By Kori Rumore

March 31, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 31, according...

Working overnight, construction crews used backhoes to tear up large sections of the runway at Meigs Field, March 31, 2003. The X's effectively shut down the lakefront airport since no traffic could take off or land. (David Klobucar/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: Mayor Richard M. Daley orders Meigs Field shut down

By Kori Rumore

March 30, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 30, according...