Former Tribune reporter K.C. Johnson — who played for the Evanston team that lost to Wilson’s team in the 1984 Class AA state championship game, and then played Simeon again the day after Wilson died ...
On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...
On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...
In our news wrap Tuesday, the government shutdown tied the record for the longest in U.S. history at 35 days, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the war in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” ...
1948: The Tribune was on deadline. In the absence of election results, the newspaper assumed that New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) would sink incumbent Harry S. Truman (Democrat). He didn’t.