“Helmut Jahn’s State of Illinois Center is the most cerebral, the most abstract, yet easily the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop,” Tribune architecture critic Paul Gapp wrote ...

The Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Parade was one of the largest gatherings in Chicago history, but it has been quickly forgotten by time — just as the men and women who fought in the unpopular war had ...

WTTW's John Callaway takes a tour up Lake Michigan and down the Chicago River in 1986. WTTW's John Callaway takes a tour up Lake Michigan and down the Chicago River with geography professor David ...

A sure sign that summer very nearly has arrived in Chicago is the flurry of announcements of 1986-87 concert schedules by area music organizations. The Northwestern University School of Music has ...

This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Jan. 28, 1986. A thank-you note written on 10 tons of ticker tape was hand-delivered to the Bears, who returned to sweet home Chicago Monday packing ...

Three out of every four televisions in the Chicago area on April 21, 1986 were watching “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults” as host Geraldo Rivera and an excavation team blasted through concrete walls ...

Players and coaches from the 1985 Chicago Bears football team, which won Super Bowl XX, pose for a team photo circa 1986. You can probably remember at least one thing about some of the Chicago Bears ...

Short documentary about the House Music movement in Chicago, featuring DJ, Frankie Knuckles and music group, JM Silk. This is filmed at their record release party at the Powerhouse Nightclub in ...