1972: Forty-five people died when a United Airlines jet crashed into bungalows on West 70th Place while approaching Chicago’s ...

1907: Albert A. Michelson, the first head of the physics department at the University of Chicago, won the first Nobel Prize ever presented to an American (though he was born in Prussia) in science.

After 22 college football award winners were recognized Friday, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy — ...

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb celebrates after throwing a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end L.J. Smith in ...

Overnight Chicago-area snowfall created hazardous road conditions and caused delays at Chicago O'Hare International Airport ...

2012 — Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel becomes the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football’s ...

There will be a new No. 1 — pick, that is. The Chicago White Sox secured on Tuesday the first pick in the 2026 Major League ...

Chicago is off to its snowiest start to winter in 47 years. We’ve had 17.1 inches of snow at O’Hare Airport through Dec. 9. That’s the most since 1978, and the fifth most overall through that time.

Congratulations to the 2025 Heisman Trophy finalists: @NDFootball RB Jeremiyah Love, @IndianaFootball QB Fernando Mendoza, ...

Hopefully the New York Rangers rested up this past week, when they played one game in a five-day stretch. Because ...

The film’s first trailer leans on not just that haunted feeling, but also the sense we’re being let in on something private, ...

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has revealed the principal cast for its Winter 2026 production of Chez ...