The all-time Chicago record snowfall was set in 1967. Over the course of 35 hours, 23 inches of snow fell on Chicago, clogging streets, shuttering businesses and paralyzing the city for days. Roofs collapsed....
Vintage Chicago photos
Chicago Tribune photographers have captured the lives of city residents for more than a century. Take a look back in time through their eyes.
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Both a boulevard and one of the nation's first superhighways, Lake Shore Drive arguably showcases Chicago like no other street does. The campaign for a waterfront boulevard occurred in 1899, when Potter...
The Chicago Tribune is proud to share our book "Gangsters & Grifters," a collection of vintage Chicago crime images. From our massive archive of 4x5 glass-plate and acetate negatives, we bring you stunning...
In the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spent much time visiting — and at one point renting a home in — Chicago to help with open housing initiatives and the civil rights movement in the city. The...
In 1914, a local businessman named Charles Weeghman bought land and built a ballpark for the Federal League baseball team. Weeghman Park opened in 1914 and two short years later, the Chicago Cubs would...
Riverview Park in Chicago was one of the great urban amusement parks, opening in 1904 at Western and Belmont avenues on the Northwest Side and closing in 1967. It featured what some insist was the finest...
Uncovered by Tribune photo editors and unseen for generations, this stunning collection of images from glass plates and 4x5 negatives captures well-known and long-forgotten entertainers from the 1920s...
The city of Chicago officially designated the land east of Michigan Avenue as a park in 1844, calling it Lake Park. The city had promised its people that the park would remain public land, vacant, with...
On Dec. 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, the rising star of a declining Black Panther Party, was killed in a police raid at his West Side apartment, which immortalized him as an improbable hero of the civil rights...
In the shadow of the Loop's skyscrapers, there once was an open-air bazaar with sights, sounds and smells that seemed magically transported across time and space from some Old World village. The Maxwell...