2009: Due to budget cuts, the city announced it would no longer display a giant Christmas tree in Daley Plaza that was ...

1948: The Tribune was on deadline. In the absence of election results, the newspaper assumed that New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) would sink incumbent Harry S. Truman (Democrat). He didn’t.

2004: Donald Trump, whose namesake building would be constructed on the site, watched as demolition began on the Chicago ...

2023: Twenty-three-year-old Kelvin Kiptum set a world record in the Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:00:35. Kiptum ran to ...

2004: Democrat Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate. In defeating Republican Alan Keyes by the largest margin ever in ...

Here are a few of local historian Adam Selzer’s favorite headcases — and a few others that have been profiled by the Tribune through the decades.

1995: A bus loaded with high school students was hit by an express commuter train at a crossing in Fox River Grove, tearing ...

2018: Chicago native Derrick Rose scored a career-high 50 points in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 128-125 win over the Utah Jazz in Minneapolis. Rose became the fourth player that season to score at ...

The closures come after it was reported that the Dearborn and Dearborn Heights' Press & Guide would end operations Wednesday, ...

Zohran, the son of Oscar-nominated filmmaker of Indian origin, Mira Nair and reputed academic Mahmood Mamdani, was born in ...