1977: A bystander called it “a slow-motion horror.” The Tribune called it the worst crash in Chicago Transit Authority ...

1971: “Grease” was performed for the first time — at Kingston Mines Theatre, 2356 Lincoln Ave., Chicago, in a building that ...

The Homan Square site was already home to the company’s mail-order plant when the store, which featured an optical shop and a ...

2001: The Orlando Rage defeated the Chicago Enforcers 33-29 in front of a sellout crowd of 35,603 in the Citrus Bowl during ...

2000: Illinois Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions, saying it would be in effect until he could be morally certain that no innocent person would face execution in the state. Three ...

2017: Chicago immigration reform advocates and Muslim leaders denounced President Donald Trump’s executive order to ...

1982: In the first of its kind in the U.S., Morton Grove began enforcement of a controversial ordinance banning the possession of handguns. Residents turned in five guns to police on the first day.

The next day, Daley, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King were joined by 6,000 mourners at the Arie Crown Theater inside McCormick Place for Jackson’s ...

U.S. authorities took more than a dozen travelers into custody at O’Hare in response to Trump’s order — but lawyers who came to their aid said all were set free after a federal judge temporarily ...