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- City Life, Sightseeing Aug 25, 2020
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Grant Park, the lakefront, and Chicago’s WWI connections
In September 1918, the park hosted an exposition to drum up civilian support for the war effort.
- City Life, Sightseeing Aug 5, 2020
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Chicago at the turn of the century through the eyes of Rudolph F. Michaelis
From 1900 to 1905, his photographs captured slices of everyday life.
- City Life, Sightseeing Jul 14, 2020
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'Always be birding'
Local birdwatchers embrace urban wildlife and conservation.
- City Life, Sightseeing May 12, 2020
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The maverick at the center of Chicago’s 1918 flu response
Meet Dr. John Dill Robertson, the "utterly unqualified" head of the Chicago Health Department
- City Life, Sightseeing Apr 6, 2020
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The ghosts of Great Lakes
The deaths of nearly a thousand sailors at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in 1918 hold lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic.
- City Life, Sightseeing Mar 17, 2020
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The opposite of social distancing
Photos from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century show Chicago in love and at play.
- City Life, Sightseeing Dec 20, 2019
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When Cook County enlisted the Marines to fight marijuana
A sheriff, a pack of journalists, and three sergeants walked into a field of weed . . . with flamethrowers.
- City Life, Sightseeing Nov 20, 2019
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A trip back in time to the World’s Columbian Exposition
Travel tips for Chicago from 1893 (yes, you should tip your servers).
- City Life, Sightseeing Oct 10, 2019
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Field notes from the war on sex
A century ago, the Committee of Fifteen hunted for “houses of ill-fame.”
- City Life, Sightseeing Aug 28, 2019
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They thought he was an ‘agitator’
Franklin A. Denison was no rabble-rouser, but the Bureau of Investigation said he sparked the 1919 race riot.
- City Life, Sightseeing Jul 24, 2019
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A tale of two soldiers
Letters home from two WWI soldiers, one white, one Black, explain the 1919 Chicago race riot as well as any history book.
- City Life, Sightseeing Jul 3, 2019
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An airport in the lake
How Mayor Richard J. Daley’s ambitious plan failed to take flight
- City Life, Sightseeing Jun 12, 2019
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Think you know your Chicago underworld slang?
A quiz on some of the less obvious entries in a 1967 police-training dictionary
- City Life, Sightseeing May 23, 2019
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Miss Teen Wordpower
The story of forgotten Chicago vaudevillian and superfast typist Birdie Reeve
- City Life, Sightseeing Feb 26, 2019
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When the mayor fired the cops
For eight hours in 1861, Chicago had no police force.
- City Life, Sightseeing Feb 12, 2019
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The mayor’s assassin
Revisiting a murder in the White City.
- City Life, Sightseeing Feb 1, 2019
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The south-side doctor who performed the first successful open-heart procedure
Daniel Hale Williams was a pioneer in many ways.
- City Life, Sightseeing Jan 22, 2019
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Streeterville was named for a land-grabbing criminal
Here's the story behind the statue.
