For 60 years, nine mayors have had no choice but to contend with the famed civil rights activist, and sometimes defer to him ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 31, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. (Business) front page flashback: Feb. 1 ...

CHICAGO — During a visit to Chicago on Friday, former Vice President Al Gore was expected to endorse the mayoral campaign of Bill Daley, the chairman of his historic 2000 presidential campaign that ...

The next day, Daley, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King were joined by 6,000 mourners at the Arie Crown Theater inside McCormick Place for Jackson’s ...