Al Capone’s name has become synonymous with Prohibition-era gang violence. Like many outlaws of the era, he is today romanticized as a mob legend, Capone’s actual climb to the top in 1920s Chicago was ...

During Prohibition, the U.S. government added toxins to industrial alcohol, knowing it could kill. The result? A chemical war ...

1933: Chicagoans drank up as 3.2% beer became legal after 13 years of Prohibition. 1972: Two cars of a four-car CTA “L” train ...

Let's say instead of violent nerd Gordon Freeman wasting alien invaders in City 17, Half-Life 2 was actually about a gritty ...

But when put into a historical context [like Prohibition-era Chicago], the player already sort of knows what's going on there," Romero said. "Our lives are a system soup, right? So if you're ...

There are two kinds of messy big-budget movies, and as of 2025, Ryan Coogler has made them both. There’s the Marvel kind (seen in Coogler’s Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ), where ...

That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about how well it was working. When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well.

The global smash-hit stage show Chicago the Musical is coming to Auckland and Christchurch this July and August, in a ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 6, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Born in Alabama to former ...