Tribune photographers captured all the action, from Wrigley Field to Soldier Field over the years. Take a look back in time.
In 1914, construction was underway for the first baseball season at Weeghman Park for the Federal League Chicago Whales team. In a 1914 postcard of the newly built Weeghman Park, Eliza Hall of the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary can be seen abutting the left field fence. The ball park was waiting for the lease to […]
Claude Passeau (from left), Ray Prim, Hank Wyse and Paul Derringer were part of the pitching staff that helped the Cubs to its last World Series appearance. Passeau tossed a one-hitter to beat Detroit in one series game. Cubs pitcher Hy Vandenberg, center, ends Detroit Tigers’ second inning with a toss of the ball to […]
Originally Published: October 22, 2018 at 2:20 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic and Irene (nee Castle) McLaughlin in 1928. McLaughlin purchased an ice hockey franchise and named it the Blackhawks in 1926. His wife, Irene, is credited with creating the Indian Head design of the first Blackhawk sweater. McLaughlin would own the team for 18 years and see two Stanley Cup wins. Charlie […]
Originally Published: September 10, 2014 at 1:00 a.m.
Boxing legend Jack Johnson in an undated photo. Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson’s Cafe de Champion in September 1912. Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson before his fight with Jim Jeffries in 1910 in Reno, Nevada. Heavyweight […]
Originally Published: January 25, 2015 at 9:08 a.m.
