Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 10, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

1933: Chicagoans drank up as 3.2% beer became legal after 13 years of Prohibition. Sears Holdings Corp. filed for Chapter 11 ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 31, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

Reviews are in for The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino’s new Broadway play starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson. Now ...

2012: Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell was arrested on charges of misappropriating more than $30 million in city money. She ...

1917: Chicago White Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte threw a no-hitter in his first start of the season. White Sox pitchers have thrown more no-hitters than any other American League team.

1936: The Bears took “Jumbo” Joe Stydahar — the first linesman ever drafted — with the No. 6 pick in the first NFL draft.

Seventy years ago this week, McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner ...

2015: Two people were killed in one of the strongest tornadoes to hit northern Illinois in more than two decades, and that tornado, which hit and virtually obliterated the town of Fairdale, population ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 2, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: April 3, 1995 A ...

2024: Southern Illinois plunged into darkness and onlookers offered a standing ovation for the last total solar eclipse the contiguous United States would see for the next two decades.