Chicago River dividing the city of Chicago, Illinois. The largest city in the Midwest, and the third most populous in the country, Chicago is a beacon of culture and commerce in the nation’s flatlands ...

It seems that unlike recent years, the 1950s and early 1960s in the Chicago area experienced colder winters. I recall that ice skating at Phillips Park Lagoon in Aurora was so popular that the ice ...

St. Patrick's Day is upon us and with it reflections on immigration, like this Heidi Stevens piece about Bridget Gainer: "The real story of St. Patrick's Day is people were fleeing economic or ...

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The 1950s brought the Chicago area some of its hottest summers of record, landing four in the top-10 warmest: 1955, 1959, 1953 and 1954. The 1955 summer ranks as the city’s all-time warmest dating ...

The 1950s produced some of Chicago’s hottest summers, including four in a row from 1952-55. In most of those summers, the season’s first 90s came in May, with the last ones occurring in September and ...

CHICAGO | The middle of the new millennium's first decade is as good a time as any to look back on the middle of last century in the Midwest's biggest city. The 1950s, after all, were grand times for ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 1950s Chicago, author Greg Grieco was a young boy who hides in his ...

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