Charles Storch

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange work frantically as panic selling swept Wall Street in this Oct. 19, 1987 file photo.

30 years since Black Monday: Chicago investors in a daze: ‘There are guys who are ready to jump out the window’

June 2, 2018 at 1:40 a.m.

This article ran on the front page of the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1987, a day after "Black Monday," when the stock market suffered its biggest loss ever....

Tribune Co. CEO Stanton Cook, left, and Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick speak at an April 30, 1974, news conference on the Tribune's publication of Oval Office transcripts in the Watergate scandal. Cook, who was the newspaper's publisher, later backed an editorial that called for President Richard Nixon to resign. Cook died Sept. 3, 2015; he was 90.

Former Tribune Co. CEO Stanton Cook dies at 90

August 19, 2019 at 1:25 a.m.

Former Tribune Co. CEO Stanton R. Cook inherited an underperforming company and transformed it into a modern, diversified media corporation that broke with its conservative past, endured a lengthy union...

Humanities fest attendance grows

August 22, 2021 at 6:07 a.m.

The Chicago Humanities Festival said it sold 41,097 tickets to its spring children's and fall adult events this year, a 13 percent increase from the 36,439 in 2007. For the...

Goodman, Steppenwolf actors win fellowships

August 22, 2021 at 6:33 a.m.

Goodman Theatre's Mary Beth Fisher and Steppenwolf Theatre Company member Francis Guinan are among 11 actors from regional theaters to receive the initial Lunt-Fontanne fellowships. The new honors are being...

In tragedy, artists find inspiration, despair

August 22, 2021 at 6:44 a.m.

The least of Jennifer Hudson's concerns right now is how the slayings of her mother and brother -- and the still-unresolved disappearance of her 7-year-old nephew -- will affect her...

Local arts groups helping museum

August 22, 2021 at 1:57 a.m.

Cultural organizations across the city are working to help the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago rebuild after a Sept. 19 fire severely damaged its building and destroyed artifacts. The National Museum...

Kartemquin Films appoints new executive director

August 22, 2021 at 2:54 a.m.

Kartemquin Films, the Chicago producer of such documentaries as "Hoop Dreams" and "Stevie," is turning to a 29-year-old associate director to succeed co-founder Gordon Quinn as executive director. The move,...

Cultural Center to feature local authors

August 22, 2021 at 8:30 a.m.

The Chicago Cultural Center, once the city's main public library, again is making room for books and other reading material, with the planned opening of a gallery stocked with new...

5 THINGS TO LEARN ABOUT … Ticketmaster

August 22, 2021 at 4:18 a.m.

1. Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. on Thursday spun off its powerhouse live entertainment ticketing and marketing firm, Ticketmaster, to its shareholders. After five years in the IAC fold, Ticketmaster had to...

Controversy closes show at museum

August 21, 2019 at 9:45 p.m.

Maps and artwork that present competing views of the struggles in the Middle East have proved too provocative for Chicago's only Jewish museum. Under intense pressure from angry Jewish patrons,...

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