Video by Chicago photographer Craig Shimala shows swimmers taking the icy plunge at both North Avenue Beach and Ohio Street Beach. Shimala told Storyful that the man featured in the video, George ...

While some light snow and freezing drizzle continues to fall, most of the Chicago area missed the brunt of a Midwestern winter storm. The northern suburbs saw the most accumulation, which was just ...

Chicago's Iroquois Theater fire in 1903 claimed 602 lives, including those of three Bloomington women, and became the worst such disaster in U.S. history.

Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...