Worst plane crash in U.S. history
Thirty-five years ago Sunday, in what remains the worst airline crash on U.S. soil, more than 270 people were killed near O'Hare International Airport when American Airlines Flight 191 lost...
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10 things you might not know about lies
Truth is a battleground these days. Five Chicago-area police officers are accused of lying on the stand. A Republican protester shadows Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's events dressed as "Quinnochio." A...
The Civil War: A good unit’s bad decision
It's early April 1864, more than four months after the Tribune declared Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory at Chattanooga, Tenn., a Rebel Waterloo, and the Civil War is far from...
10 things you might not know about traffic tickets
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused of harassing foreign business executives by using speeding tickets as an excuse to kick them out of the country. Half a world away, Chicago's...
How the Eastland disaster almost reshaped Chicago sports
If 20-year-old George Halas had arrived on time to a work outing in 1915, his Bears might never have been established. Halas and other Western Electric employees were invited to...
10 things you might not know about Illinois governors
Gov. Pat Quinn faces a single opponent In Tuesday's Democratic primary as he seeks a second full term, while four Republicans vie to take the governor's mansion away from the...
Elvis swiveled before Miley twerked
When Miley Cyrus struts, dances or twerks onto the Allstate Arena stage Friday, thousands of kids will scream their approval and not a few parents will wish their children had...
10 things you might not know about obscure words
The crazy winter weather has inspired wider use of some little-known words, such as bombogenesis (meteorologists' slang for a type of rapidly intensifying storm) and williwaw (a windstorm caused when...
10 things you might not know about obscure words
The crazy winter weather has inspired wider use of some little-known words, such as bombogenesis (meteorologists' slang for a type of rapidly intensifying storm) and williwaw (a windstorm caused when...
When speed skating was king of winter
In January 1918, Oscar Mathisen, the Norwegian speedskating superstar who was the reigning European and world champ, came to Chicago to put to rest once and for all the ridiculous...