Also in 1963: Loyola won the NCAA championship over Cincinnati, which was seeking an unprecedented third consecutive title in ...

1928: “Diamond Joe” Esposito, 19th Ward boss, was slain near his home on South Oakley Boulevard in Chicago. His death ...

1923: The first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s drawings in the United States opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, ...

He was sworn in three days later by Mayor Richard J. Daley at age 25, and became the second youngest alderman in city history ...

2004: Target Corp. announced it was putting Chicago retailing icon Marshall Field’s up for sale. Field’s was sold to May ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...

1979: DePaul University men’s basketball coach Ray Meyer made it back to the Final Four for the first time in 36 years. The ...

Thirty Sun-Times employees, including 23 reporters and editors, will be voluntarily leaving the newspaper, which joined ...

As Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather looked through the Tribune’s photo archive she realized that much of the city’s history has been intertwined with the Walgreens chain.