Jeff Lyon

EINSTEIN'S GREAT RUN of scientific discoveries lasted from 1905 to 1915, but he got little U.S. press until 1919, when a solar eclipse verified his theories. Earliest mention of him...

Not that you're seriously thinking of it, but stifle any urge to move to New York City. Here's what $1.3 million will buy you in the way of a condo...

DRESS CODES, which had been given up for dead in the age of bare this, bare that, are sitting up and taking nourishment. In September, Illinois State U's business school...

WHEN THE HARRIS BANK bought the Mercantile National Bank of Hammond in 2004, one thing was not for sale: the 56-foot-by-8-foot mural on the wall behind the tellers. The colorful...

THIS NEW FEATURE dips into our archives for the earliest mention in the Chicago Tribune's pages of people who would go on to great fame. With the World Series coming,...

NEVER GOING OUT OF STYLE may be the key element of style, and the long-lived little book pictured at left certainly has that covered. Its 4th edition was published in...

ONE WAY TO KNOW you're getting old is when you have to pause while climbing stairs. But if you're a jazz great, it's when they start headlining you at Orchestra...

"NEW ORLEANS SHOULD come with a warning label," is the way the 2005 and 2007 editions of the guidebook "Frommer's New Orleans" both begin. But there the similarity ends. The...

1. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the ubiquitous flying disc, at least as a product sold by Wham-O Inc. under the name Frisbee. But the concept is far...

-- When Andre the Giant, the 7-foot-tall, 400-pound pro wrestler, was a boy living in France, he was often driven to school by his neighbor, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright...