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 … ...

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… ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 104th anniversary of the Eastland Disaster brings with it a new television documentary that makes clear that justice was never served for those who died aboard the steamship.

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 ...

Descendants of the survivors of the Eastland disaster want to make sure it's never forgotten. Abbott issues executive order to arrest CCP operatives in Texas Scientists discover a ‘third state ...