Former students and teacher Esther Howard were part of West Alton Public School’s one-room classroom history.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 21, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed Bobby Franks, 13, ...

Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” carried out by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (Bobby’s distant cousin). 1927: Charles A.

I found myself in Rosehill Cemetery. It was founded in 1859 and is 350 acres — the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago.

"People were not used to having cameras in the courtroom. ... Everyone was watching cable and everyone had that common ...

The trials of Lyle and Erik Menendez came at a time of cultural obsession with courts, crime and murder, when live televised trials captivated a national audience.

Kathy Leopold has stories to tell. Leopold attended the 1968 summer Olympics and the 1970 World Cup. She traveled by herself to a village in Taiwan in 1977 to visit her parents. And all she had to ...

Some, like the 1920s murderers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, saw such flagrant violations of social mores as justified in the aftermath of the death of God. For Leopold, writes Klavan ...

Other members of the Stateville rogues’ gallery include William Heirens, convicted of three murders in 1946; and Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, the infamous “thrill killers” of 1924 who ...