2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (284+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 4, according to the Tribune's archives. Front page flashback: April 5, 1968 1968: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel…...

21+ hour, 15+ min ago  (284+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 3, according to the Tribune's archives. Front page flashback: April 4, 1996 1996: "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski, a Chicago-area native, was arrested at his remote Montana cabin. 5 things you might not know…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (664+ words) As a youngster, Samuel R. Harris survived the Holocaust, making him one of the youngest such survivors of the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Later in life, Harris was behind the creation of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (201+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 2, according to the Tribune's archives. Front page flashback: April 3, 1995 1995: After a 4 "-hour meeting with Major League Baseball owners at the O'Hare Hilton in Chicago, acting Commissioner Bud…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (297+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 1, according to the Tribune's archives. Sports flashback: April 1, 1972 1972: Major League Baseball players voted in Dallas to strike against team owners. The players demands included an increase in…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (350+ words) Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2026. There are 275 days left in the year. On March 31,1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of a TWA plane near Bazaar, Kansas. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (360+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 31, according to the Tribune's archives. Front page flashback: April 1, 1996 1996: The Chicago White Sox lost to the Seattle Mariners 3-2 in 12 innings at the Kingdome. "It was like watching…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (428+ words) Mike Schiltz of North Aurora is a self-professed history buff who found himself in a good place recently at the Depot Museum in Batavia. "Actually, I love history " I consider myself a history geek," he said while looking at a…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (235+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 30, according to the Tribune's archives. Front page flashback: March 31, 1981 1981: John Hinckley Jr., son of a wealthy Denver oil executive, shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan who was…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (324+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 29, according to the Tribune's archives. Sports front flashback: March 30, 1990 2000:TheChicagoCubs faced the New York Mets in the Tokyo Dome for the first Major League Baseball opening dayoutside…...