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Actor Tommy Lee Jones, left, and former Vice President Al Gore, attend a 2005 film premiere in New York. The two men were roommates at Harvard University.
Rush Street in the 1950s was a time when an alcoholic was a "character," a stripper was practicing art and a prostitute could garner respect.
The Chicago flag's four stars represent Fort Dearborn, the Great Chicago Fire, the World's Columbian Exposition and the Century of Progress Exposition.
Jack Harris, 10, left, and Truman "Pat" Kirkpatrick, 16, play music in their Oak Park tree fort as they compete for the tree-sitting endurance record in July 1930. The boys quit July 15, 1930, at the request of their parents after having spent 115 hours in an oak tree.
Reenactors fire muskets near the Sons of the American Revolution's French Monument on the campus of St. John's College in Annapolis, Md.
George Washington, 50, of the 500 block of Sheridan Road, had a 50-foot-long American flag made for him in 1943 to show his patriotism. Chicago has been honoring Old Glory's June 14, 1777, birthday since at least 1892.
Why is a labor stoppage called a "strike"? Learn the history of the term and nine other facts about unions.