Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 4, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The coffins of Abraham and Mary Todd ...

Chicago newsgatherers hurried out one day last week to interview Alphonse (“Scarface Al”) Capone, gunman. They found him arrayed in hunting clothes at his hotel. Mr. Capone had not been hunting humans ...

If you believed every story you were told, Chicago gangster Al Capone controlled every saloon in Milwaukee, every tavern has a tunnel Capone used and every subterranean space was one of his ...