Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Flashback: Oct. 3, 1969 1969: The first ...
Comiskey Park was built to hold 44,492 people. On July 12, 1979, the official count was 47,795, with an unknown number more slipping past ticket-takers who’d stopped checking. The White Sox had booked ...
Disco emerged in the late 1960s, rising out of the urban nightlife to become the dominant genre of the 1970s. Once primarily associated with minorities, disco clubs turned mainstream and sprang up ...