CHICAGO — In two weeks, Chicago will commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Eastland Disaster. 2500 people boarded the Eastland on July 24th, 1915 as part of the Western Electric company ...

A crowd of people gather during the SS Eastland disaster July 24, 1915, in Chicago. The Tribune wrote on July 25, “The crowds looked on in silence. … It was too big to grasp.

2015 will be a year of remembering the Eastland disaster, which killed more than 800 people on the Chicago River near Clark Street in 1915. Latest U.S.

AP photo / file; Passengers wait for help after the Eastland capsized in the Chicago River on July 24, 1915. More than 800 others didn’t make it out alive. It happened in plain view—at 7:30 AM ...

Mark Lach, Creative Director for “Titanic: The Exhibition,” and Ted Wachholz, Executive Director, Eastland Disaster Historical Society, join John Williams to talk about the 109th anniversary of the ...

Only hours after the Eastland disaster, a Tribune reporter witnessed numerous somber processions in Cicero, where many of the estimated 844 victims lived. “All night long crowds had thronged … ...

The clips are Dutch newsreels describing how he SS Eastland, which was carrying 2,500 people, turned onto its side in the Chicago River in July 1915. Footage of 1915 Chicago Ship Disaster That ...

Chuck Michalek began seeking a memorial to Eastland disaster victims about four years ago, but the tragedy was planted in his mind at the impressionable age of 8, he said, when his father told him ...

Only hours after the Eastland disaster, a Tribune reporter witnessed numerous somber processions in Cicero, where many of the estimated 844 victims lived. “All night long crowds had thronged … ...

“Eastland Disaster as Reporter Saw It,” New York Times, July 25, 1915, p. 2 “The Experiences of a Hawthorne Nurse,” by Helen Repa, Western Electric News, August 1915.

The Eastland Disaster: All Chicagoans of a certain age (ahem, such as myself) grew up hearing about it from parents or grandparents; how, on July 24, 1915, a Lake Michigan cruise ship, overloaded ...