Tag: Chicago

Frederick N. Sage, who claimed to be a former judge from Hartford, said he was unlawfully held in a Chicago detention hospital and denied communication…

A 19-year-old was discovered unconscious on a train with her hands tied and a bottle of chloroform nearby. The oddest part about this story is…

In a bold daylight escape, two prisoners broke out of the county jail one Sunday afternoon, locking a guard in a cell and climbing out…

A heat wave in 1916 caused the deaths of 161 people within 48 hours in the midwest. Of those 161 deaths, 44 of them were…

A young woman was found murdered and dumped on an ash pile in Chicago, 1917. Police released the news that she was out “joyriding” and…

In an unusual twist on traditional blacksmithing, some of Chicago’s horse owners were outfitting their steeds with paper horseshoes. Introduced by a German inventor and…

The title says it all. Firemen went into a burning building and rescued subjects in the dissection room. This happened in Chicago, 1902. Ghastly Joke…

Chicago chef, John Grady, was held for murder after the bloody clothes belonging to his wife were found stashed under the porch of their home…

Anti-immigration policies have always plagued U.S. politics, as we see below in the article published 100 years ago in 1924. What I find particularly interesting…

In 1894, Chicago, a drunk man decided to steal a live alligator being displayed outside of a restaurant. What happened next was utter chaos as…