He was born Robert Leroy Parker to a Mormon couple building Latter-day Saints communities out west. He adopted the alias George “Butch” Cassidy while working in a Wyoming butcher shop as a fugitive ...

1852: The first direct train from the East arrived in Chicago to the sound of a firing cannon and the sight of an immense crowd on the Michigan Southern Railroad. O’Hare was 29 when he died on Nov. 26 ...

On this day, June 24, in 1889, Butch Cassidy robbed a bank in Telluride, Colo., the first major heist for the outlaw later romanticized as the Robin Hood of the West. Cassidy and three cowboys made ...

Steeped in Western lore, many of us know Butch Cassidy was a cattle rustler, horse thief, bank and train robber, former convict, and charismatic leader of the Wild Bunch Gang who "broke ground on the ...

In World War I, New York City’s bouncy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was a ball of buna in the U.S. Air Service. From his base in Italy, he soared on bombing raids over the Alps, haggled with his ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 20, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1852: The first direct train from the ...