Editor's note: An earlier version of this story reported Jane Byrne's age as 80, reflecting city reports that she was born in 1934. Her birth certificate, according to the Cook County Clerk's Office, ...

After a bloody clash over the Christopher Columbus statue in Chicago’s Grant Park, then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot tasked a special commission with reviewing the city’s public monuments in what she said was ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 31, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Launched in 1931 to provide mail-order ...

1917: Tribune correspondent Floyd P. Gibbons was on the British ocean liner Laconia bound for reporting duty in England when the ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine in ...

CHICAGO | Jane Byrne became part of Chicago history when she was elected its first female mayor. She became part of city lore because of how she won: beating an incumbent who voters thought had ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Mary E. Hoy and her daughter Elizabeth ...