Elise De Los Santos

The heart of the Englewood shopping district on Chicago's South Side, photographed looking north on Halsted Street from the 63rd Street elevated train platform, circa 1945. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

Flashback: Englewood’s shopping district rivaled that of the Loop — but it fell victim to rise of suburban malls, white flight

October 22, 2024 at 3:24 p.m.

Lights twinkling up and down the Magnificent Mile. Wreaths hung around the necks of the Art Institute's stately lions. Admirers crowded around Macy's window displays. Hundreds of shoppers rushing around...

John "Champ" Farnham, 9, rides a simulation of a bucking bronco as Gen. Robert E. Wood, president of the Chicago Boys' Club, and Bill Finnerty, director of Prairie Ranch, watch Aug. 20, 1952, at the Chicago Boys' Club camp at Winona Lake, Indiana.

Flashback: Happy campers: A look back in photos at the many summers Chicago kids spent at Indiana camps

August 14, 2020 at 3:57 p.m.

Though the thought of leaving the city for the relative wilds of Indiana brought at least one child to tears in 1956, for decades before and after, thousands of boys...

Facility Superintendent Martin Lynn is surrounded by children at Chicago's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in 1929. The sanitarium helped maintain an open air school to nurture undernourished children.

Flashback: In the fight against tuberculosis, open air schools in Chicago took an unorthodox approach: Keep kids outside, even in winter

May 1, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

Just as the coronavirus pandemic has forced today's educators to rethink teaching methods and health care experts to push for new practices, so did another health crisis that Chicago faced...

Senior team captain Eloise Anderson of Chicago Normal Hockey poses in 1928 in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago.

Flashback: When women cracked the gender barrier with sticks: Field hockey in the early 1900s created a revolution in sports

March 20, 2020 at 3:49 p.m.

What makes a fair athlete? With a sign-stealing scandal recently rocking Major League Baseball, what may come to mind are competitors who act with integrity and play by the rules...

The Chicago Daily Tribune printed photos on Jan. 21, 1909, of the water crib fire that had killed dozens of men the day before.

Flashback: The deaths of dozens of men when flames consumed a wooden water crib stunned a fire-weary Chicago

January 25, 2020 at 8:03 p.m.

"Death's fortress on the lake." "A death trap." "Crib of horror." "Pits of fire and watery graves." More than a century ago, a fire more than a mile from shore...

Jerry, 5, didn't get those two front teeth for Christmas, but the truck was a grand substitute Christmas gift at Norwegian Lutheran Children's home on Dec. 24, 1952. The Good Fellow drive was conducted by Chicago Tribune Charities, Inc. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

Flashback: A plea by a ‘Good Fellow’ in 1909 inspired thousands of Chicagoans to become Secret Santas to the city’s children

December 18, 2024 at 1:33 p.m.

The holidays tend to inspire anonymous acts of goodwill. Every year we hear about valuable coins being dropped into Salvation Army donation kettles; just a couple of days before Thanksgiving...

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Flashback: Englewood’s shopping district rivaled that of the Loop — but it fell victim to rise of suburban malls, white flight

Flashback: Happy campers: A look back in photos at the many summers Chicago kids spent at Indiana camps

Flashback: In the fight against tuberculosis, open air schools in Chicago took an unorthodox approach: Keep kids outside, even in winter

Flashback: When women cracked the gender barrier with sticks: Field hockey in the early 1900s created a revolution in sports

Flashback: The deaths of dozens of men when flames consumed a wooden water crib stunned a fire-weary Chicago

Flashback: A plea by a ‘Good Fellow’ in 1909 inspired thousands of Chicagoans to become Secret Santas to the city’s children

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