Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

It’s opening day and there might not be a team in baseball that looks forward to wiping its slate clean more than the Chicago ...

1964: Chicago experienced 7.1 inches of snow on Easter Sunday — the heaviest Easter snowfall on record and the largest last ...

A handy collection of links to the entire 2024-25 Courier News and Home News Tribune All-Area Girls Basketball package ...

1929: Chicago Stadium — the largest indoor sporting venue in the world at the time — opened with 15,000 people (10,000 fewer ...

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

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

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

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

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

Those efforts appear to have been rewarded. In December, Trump selected Burch to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Holy See; the nomination was formally sent to the U.S. Senate March 11 for ...

1958: Nathan Leopold, who was convicted with Richard Loeb in the “perfect murder” of Bobby Franks in 1924, was released from Stateville prison in Joliet on the 20th anniversary of his attorney ...