The organization is busy digitizing papers like the Chicago Defender and the Baltimore Afro American. And they're turning them into virtual exhibits on Google's Arts & Culture platform. Read more
Once upon a time, Richard J. Daley hired the Cardinals legend and former Cubs manager to lead a program to teach 200,000 Chicago kids how to play baseball, in order to combat juvenile delinquency—despite Hornsby's considerable deficits as a role model. Read more
The ubiquitous plastic vessel has come a long way: from South Side immigrant inventors to big business in Lake Forest, a Toby Keith hit to syndicated TV specials starring its inventor's wife—and now a galaxy far, far away. Read more
Sandra Cisneros, Alex Kotlowitz, Rick Kogan, and others discuss what his work means to them, and highlight favorites from his 5,600 shows over 45 years—1,200 of which are now live in the Studs Terkel Radio Archive. Read more
Poetry immortalized the Cubs' legendary infielders, who brought the team a World Series victory when a rough-and-tumble sport was emerging as the national pastime. Read more
The area was at the tail end of the Great Migration, and still under the tight control of white ward bosses, when the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. set off the conflagration. Read more
In February 1971, a 23-year-old TV director got an official "Attack Warning." He checked the authenticator for the correct password: "HATEFULNESS." Then he faced a decision: Should he play a terrifying plea from the North American Air Defense to take cover? Read more
