Ron Grossman

The ‘Tommy gun’ was designed for soldiers. But Chicago gangsters made it notorious.

One hundred years ago this week, Red Grange took the opening kickoff of the Illinois-Michigan football game and zigzagged through 11 frustrated defenders to score a touchdown.

Pastor and parishioner’s illicit affair drove them to poison their spouses, shocking Illinois town

At the 1944 Democratic convention in Chicago, an ailing FDR faced a difficult choice

Notorious bank robber and ‘public enemy number one’ John Dillinger was shot down outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago 90 years ago.

Architect Louis Sullivan, his glory days both behind him and yet to come – posthumously- was destitute and relying on the help of others when he died in 1924.

Early 20th Century anti-immigrant laws were fueled by fears that migrants from Europe were turning cities into ‘foreign colonies.’

The world-renowned American linguist famous for his politically dissident criticism hasn’t shared his thoughts about the Israel-Hamas war.

In the early 20th Century, the Douglas Park Auditorium provided a forum for everything from Yiddish theater to union rallies in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.

Plans for a Chicago River swimming race this fall revive memories of when such events annually drew thousands of spectators.