U.S. Census Bureau

In time for National Singles Week next week, the U.S. Census Bureau has compiled a variety of data about single Americans. Here are some findings: 86 unmarried men for every...

WHY, OH WHY, did the Tribune in the 1920s have to document seemingly every mundane robbery and divorce decree, and then let A LOOP SHOP THAT SELLS CANDY SHAPED LIKE...

FOR MOTHER'S DAY drama in 1939, Mercy Hospital was the place to be. The Feller family had come all the way from Van Meter, Iowa, to see son Bob, the...

AS MUCH AS it was a relief, Germany's surrender was a bit anticlimactic; everyone knew the end of the war in Europe was coming for months, and the ASSOCIATED PRESS...

TO A 1955 Chicagoan, this spectacular skyline would be as amazing as the everyday lives of the people inside these cars on LAKE SHORE DRIVE. Chugging diet pop (introduced in...

CHICAGO, THE SITE of more political conventions than any other city, hosted a double-header in 1952. But what made these GOP and Democratic gatherings historic was not where the delegates...

THE CITY HAD just seen the worst August for POLIO in its history, with about 100 new cases, and the opening of SCHOOL was postponed indefinitely. A dream come true...

His very first day of school, and poor Louis Graves, 6, is contending not only with an unsightly boo-boo but also with a teacher who subscribes to the cry-it-out philosophy...

Steve Chapman has half the right idea in"6 billion people: The good news" (Commentary, Sept. 26). He is right that global fertility rates are trending downward, and the reasons are...