Tara McClellan McAndrew
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Eighty-two years ago, theatrical impresario Orson Welles panicked the nation with his company’s “War of the Worlds” Halloween Eve radio broadcast. That… -
When Prohibition became law 100 years ago, it led to bootlegging and gang warfare throughout Illinois. Its effect in Chicago is well-known, but its impact…
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The worst pandemic in recent history, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the 1918 so-called “Spanish flu” pandemic, caused by…
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One was sold away from her children. Another was freed and became a businessman. Others were freed only to be kidnapped and sold back into slavery. These…
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2020 is the 75th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. Without Illinois, there wouldn’t have been nuclear medicine,…
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It was a logical step for a state that granted suffrage rights years before. “Put Illinois over first!” was the battle cry of suffragists 100 years ago…
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An Illinois woman posed as a man and served in the infantry during the Civil War. Was she transgender?More than 100 years after his death, Civil War…
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Prairie politicians didn't let challenges, like rules, get in their way, historians say.Two hundred years ago on December 3, Congress granted Illinois…
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Part 1: Radium poisoning took the lives of perhaps thousands of female factory workers, many in Ottawa, Illinois, in the last century.She was among the…
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Updating history This year is the centennial of America’s entry into World War I. Most stories about the war focus on the fighting overseas, but there was…
